I remember this book from when I was a chlid and I thought my kids would enjoy it. Keep it simple, and everything can be understood! By adding only a few dozen words, you can greatly expand your child's ability to enjoy stories! Beyond that, you could also use this structure (with tiny amendments) to teach new verbs. You could take this same structure, and introduce other nouns as well. Le Sieg - the reverse of his real last name).Īs an adult, I also encourage you to consider creating other books for your children to learn from. Seuss would have written (writing here under his pen name of Theo.

With the simple text structure, you cannot help but match what Dr. Your child will enjoy helping your with the illustrations for those pages. You can extend the value of this book by adding some pages of your own that involve numbers beyond ten. You can also encourage them to count the number of apples aloud on each creature's head. Later, you can stop for certain words that they know how to identify, and they can read that word as part of the sentence you are reading aloud. Then, they can 'read' along as you read aloud.

Most children will have no trouble memorizing this story. Otherwise, how interesting can a counting book be? Roy McKie's colorful, dynamic illustrations bring the story to life. The illustrations are also very active, and help draw interest to the story.

With these words I have quoted, you see the lion with the requisite number of apples balanced on top of the head. The illustrations nicely cue the young person to the words and the numbers involved. It makes the task both easier and more interesting for your child.īy using only 75 words, there is much repetition to help your youngster identify words that she or he will reuse throughout life. I found it to be a great idea to combine the two. Most simple books try to teach only counting or reading. The conclusion will leave your child giggling happily. Then the birds decide they would like the apples, and the fun really begins. This book is a tour de force for helping with reading and counting to ten, using a vocabulary of only 75 words! A lion, dog, and tiger find many interesting ways to balance ten apples vertically on their heads, building up from only one.

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