cover image Wordless Counting Book

Wordless Counting Book

Cindy Kosowsky. Greene Bark Press, $10.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-880851-00-5

With its rainbow-like colors, simple pictures of various kinds of fruit and sturdy, coated pages that increase in size horizontally with each spread, Kosowsky's first book provides a handy introduction to the concept of counting. A tiny page with ``0'' on its front opens to reveal a single apple, positioned next to the number 1. A pair of oranges and the number 2 appear on the next--slightly bigger--page, and so on, until 10 slices of watermelon are featured on the last--and largest--spread. Cumulative borders at the bottom of each page repeat the preceding numbers and corresponding art, reinforcing the counting pattern for little ones. Ages 2-6. (July)