Recommended for children 18 Months to 3 Years
Author
Blackstone, Stella
Publisher
Barefoot Books (ISBN: 9781846860614; Board book)
Description
(Distributed by raising readers at the 18 Month visit from February 2008 - March 2009)
Count all kinds of creatures as they tumble, rumble, slink and flap across the pages of this playful book!
Count to twelve with help from tumbling tigers, winking owls and more, while you search for the two cockatoos hidden on every page.
Count all kinds of creatures as they tumble, rumble, slink and flap across the pages of this playful book!
Count to twelve with help from tumbling tigers, winking owls and more, while you search for the two cockatoos hidden on every page.
Why raising readers Has Selected This Book
The selection committee always likes to include a counting book in the collection. The committee was struck by the great colors in this book and the fun language (who would not want to say "cockatoos" again and again?).
Questions
On each page, there are two cockatoos hiding. Ask your young reader to find the cockatoo on each page.
You can help reinforce the numbers with your young reader by pointing to the number on each page as you say them. You can also reinforce counting by counting the animals on the page one by one. For example, "Three happy hippos…one, two, three."
The back pages of the book also offer a chance to name the animals and on the following page, to count the feathers.
You can help reinforce the numbers with your young reader by pointing to the number on each page as you say them. You can also reinforce counting by counting the animals on the page one by one. For example, "Three happy hippos…one, two, three."
The back pages of the book also offer a chance to name the animals and on the following page, to count the feathers.
Activities
On pieces of paper, make bird shapes with a black crayon or marker. Don't worry about them being perfect, the illustrator of COUNTING COCKATOOS draws her cockatoos in a very loose fashion. Have your young reader color the bird. They do not have to stay in the lines or even use different colors. Anything will work. When they are done, cut the birds out around your black outline. Put tape on the back and hang them somewhere in the house and have your young reader find them. You can change their position every day when they are sleeping and make it a game when they wake up.
