Lyons Regional Library

Twelve short poems that combine counting with the story of the first Thanksgiving.

Starting with number one for the first day of school, Emily learns the numbers to one hundred in many different ways.

Each car on the train has one more zoo animal than the one before, from the first car with an elephant to the last with ten birds.

In this version of a traditional tale, Senor Calavera arrives at Grandma Beetle's door, ready to take her to the next life, but after helping her count, in English and Spanish, as she makes her birthday preparations, he changes his mind.

While a bunny and his mother shop in a grocery store for lunch guests, the reader may count and compare the amounts of carrots, peanuts, and worms in the grocery carts of other shoppers.

En este libro ilustrado para niños, relucientes mariposas enseñan los colores. Durante el día son nueve. Antes que llegue la hora de dormir, se van uno por uno. Así podemos practicar contando al revés. Young ones will love learning to count backwards from nine to one as touchable, colorful butterflies disappear one by one as bedtime approaches.

When her five little ducks disappear one by one, Mother Duck sets out to find them. Includes musical notation.

As they are startled by the activities of other nearby creatures, the number of turtles on a log in a pond decreases from ten to one. Includes factual information about the animals mentioned in the story.

Uses the numbers from one to twenty to introduce various aspects of the game of baseball.

Penelope Parker lives with penguins from all over the Southern Hemisphere. Do the penguin antics prove too much for her to handle? Children count and then compare and contrast ten different penguin species as they learn geography. Includes "For Creative Minds" section.