Product Description

Many first number books teach pre-school children how to count to ten. This energetic hide-and-seek book goes one step further, helping young readers to count a menagerie of brightly coloured felt animals, from one moose to twenty mice. Children will love meeting ladybirds, monkeys, dolphins, and tigers, and there is the added challenge of finding the mischievous ginger cat hiding on every page.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #185151 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-31
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Board book
• 32 pages

Review
One of the nicest counting books for under 5's I have seen in a long time. The pages are enchanting - bright, colourful felt, embroidery and appliqu 3D images of everything from one moose, two crabs, three ladybirds right through to nineteen elephants and twenty mice. Each page is a delight! - Guardian --Guardian

'A counting book with a difference, it counts from one to 20. So many books stop at number 10! Clare Beaton's ingenious felt-art pictures have a three dimensional quality. This book would be a valuable addition to any book shelf, to be used and enjoyed by all early years children.' - Early Years Educator --Early Years Educator

'Among the perennial first counting books, One Moose Twenty Mice by Clare Beaton inspires cries of "There!'; it has a cat to find in each decorative felt illustration.' - The Sunday Time --The Sunday Time

About the Author
On good days, Stella Blackstone lives east of the sun and west of the moon. On less good days, she lives at the bottom of a well. She finds ideas in all of these places and turns them into songs, poems and rhymes. She has read and written poetry for as long as she can remember, and her favourite books include Louis Untermeyer?s A Child's Treasury of Poetry, which was a constant companion throughout her childhood, Paolo Coelho's The Alchemist, everything by T.S. Eliot, and William Buck's translation of The Ramayana. She lives in southwest England, and enjoys walking and working in her garden as well as doing nothing whenever she has the chance Clare Beaton worked at the BBC for eight years, illustrating on many children's television programmes. She is now highly sought-after creator of handcrafted children's picture books. Clare has had nearly fifty books published, including One Moose, Twenty Mice (Barefoot Books, 1998) and Mother Goose Remembers (Barefoot Books, 2000), both of which have attracted considerable praise.

Customer Reviews

A delightful book, bound to please
Clare Beaton's artwork is deceptively simple, but absolutely delightful. Each page features a cat who is hiding among a number of other animals (two crabs, three ladybirds, four whales ...), and there are a lot of subtle touches to amuse the parents who will undoubtedly have to read the book to their child over and over again. For example, when the cat is hiding among the 'seven snakes', all that you see of it is its tail (looking like a snake itself ...); similarly, the cat's silhouette on the 'eleven owls' page looks just like an owl. My one-year-old loves this book, learned very quickly to point to the cat on each page, and demands repeatedly to have it read with her: I would recommend it unreservedly.

Both a counting book (up to twenty) and a puzzle book.
This book not only covers the numbers up to twenty, but also has a puzzle on almost every page. Each number has a different animal. So there is one moose for the number one. The puzzle is trying to find the cat on each page. Both my children (4 and 2) loved finding this. The other great feature of this book is that it has the numbers up to twenty. Unfortuantely a lot of other number books ignore the difficult numbers between ten and twenty.