This canine counting book is full of peppy illustrations and unexpected rhymes that deftly engage the reader in a playful approach to learning.
Dashing dogs are at the very heart of this story – with its high-spirited greyhounds who play hide-and-seek across its pages, punctuated by simple counting rhymes. It is an imaginative dog-walk through digits and number concepts, full of wordplay and striking visual cues. The rhymes are short and to the point, each one the cusp of a whole new story that can be developed in the early reader’s own imagination. The story invites the young readers to discover the ideas that lie between a smattering of words to create a whole world of stories. The basic colour scheme coupled with a dynamic illustration style sharpen the reader’s focus on the image at hand, sparking their imaginations to come up with what might happen next.
Małgorzata Swędrowska, translated by Charles Kraszewski
