By Greg Tang
Illustrated by Heather Cahoon
This is a great idea, and my daughter does ask to read it, but in practice it's a little too much in one book.
All the numbers from one to ten are represented, and each number has stories for every possible equation.
This works well for the first few numbers. We like to read about the squirrels and divide them up into two and two or one and three. Great.
But later on, it gets really boring. Especially nine and ten. We've never read through the story about the ants. Two eat watermellon and eight eat cheese. Three took home bread and seven took home lettuce. etc. etc. etc. until little hands are all over the book forcefully turning pages to get you to stop.
The rhyming and meter are pretty dreadful. But seeing as my daughter likes the beginning and it IS actually educational, I give this one a pass.
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