Being that I enjoy photography, I love how this author used photographs of everyday surroundings and found numbers in their shapes. From 1-10 and back to 1, the pictures take the reader on a colorful counting journey. My son enjoyed the 4 in the flamingo legs. He loves flamingoes when we visit the zoo. I was able to take this books inspiration and go on a "number walk" with my son where we challenged ourselves to find numbers in nature. A number walk would be a great counting activity for prek-2 without ever leaving school property! ( )

This book is just numbers and pictures. I feel this would be great for visual learners and also those who are in special education and can benefit from it. It is very simple and great for those who need pictures with numbers. It is much more than counting but more of visual symbols. Any grade that is struggling with numbers. ( )

I didn’t think this was the greatest counting book I’ve seen. I felt like it was very boring and wouldn’t catch kids eyes as much as others would. I found that illustrations rather than pictures would have helped with this. ( )

Joyful & educational. That is to say, it's good for all of us to be able to really see our world, not just wander through it. Paying attention to detail is important in so much of school and life, as is thinking outside the box. This book will help us do that. Plus, the pictures are pretty & fun.

Of course, the natural companion activity is to look, with your child(ren), for similar shapes. In a classroom setting, maybe the students could draw images rather than physically hunt for them - for example I'm pretty sure I recall that a '3' can be derived from the seed membranes of an apple core, and maybe a student knows that to be true and would draw such.

This is *not* a counting book. It's about visualizing the *symbols* that mean the numbers. ( )

This picture introduces observation of numbers through different items to make shapes and pictures of numbers. Counting starts from ascending to descending from one to ten and vice versa. A collection of photographs of objects in our environment that resemble the numbers one through ten, readers will enjoy this vividly colorful book at interpreting numbers in a different way.

I like how Arlena Alda incorporates in each page a photograph of an object that naturally looks like a number. For example, the curl in the hair looks like the number six. It just captures the concept and meaning well that is beyond the obvious. This book encourages children and adult to look at numbers in unexpected ways to interpret the numbers in a creative way. This book is appropriate for young children just learning how to count numbers. ( )