"Mrs. Connor's first-grade class is trying to count from one to ten in less than a second. No one is fast enough to get all the way to ten before time is up...until the first graders work together to come up with a faster way to count"--

Spot and his friends introduce colors, shapes, and numbers. On board pages.

œHarry the rabbit starts his job at the 4 Color Balloon Factory where he is asked by his boss to blow up 100 balloons for Mrs. Doopido's birthday party. When Harry wants to make sure he has the correct number of balloons, his co-workers offer suggestions for different ways to count them.

From 1 rhinoceros horn and 5 starfish arms to 8 octopus tentacles and 19 crocodile teeth, the beautiful, clear, full-page, brilliantly colored linoleum block prints are full of surprises.

In the house of twelve bunnies, Sophia searches everywhere for the one thing that will get them to bed on time.

Babar's children, Flora, Pom, and Alexander, go for a walk and count all of the interesting things they see, pleasing their father so much that he teaches them to count all the way to twenty.

A school of fish and a group of children frolic in the bay.

Ten little birds need to get to the other side of the river, and each comes up with his own unique solution.

As he goes through the day, Dog gains an increasing number of differently colored spots on his previously white coat.