"The sun stays out longer each day. Fireflies light up the night sky. When Summer arrives, it is time to get outside to play."--

A little girl catches a ring as it falls from a man's pocket, then pulls her mother along as she bravely pursues him past increasing numbers of obstacles trying to return his precious jewel

Animals are counted, from one to ten, and then back again from ten to one.

Rhyming text invites readers to count Santa's reindeer as they happily jump and play.

A young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the U.S. border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn't know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to stop and her father has to earn...

Zero, dismayed by her big, empty, roundness, tries to force herself into the shape of the much-admired One, but must finally accept that she can only be Zero.

This book offers an opportunity for children to practice counting and identifying the numbers from 1 to 10. Throughout the book, questions invite children to count the number of certain items in each picture. Other questions encourage children to look carefully at each picture and make a guess or reach a conclusion about what is happening in the scene. As they develop their skills through this book, children will become better prepared for both reading...