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Cleo's Counting Book
Caroline Mockford
Picture Book
Ages 2 to 4
Barefoot Books, 2003, 1-84148-207-2
Let's join Cleo, a pretty orange tabby cat with a white bib as she walks through the garden. We are going to count to ten with her and then back again. With bright acrylic colors the author has created a cheerful counting book full of familiar objects and a likeable character to help us learn our numbers. Cleo shows us a pair of puppies, birds in a tree and frogs in a pond. We hop on stepping stones as we cross a stream and Cleo even climbs a tree. There are fish in a pond and buzzing bees. Once the tour of the yard is complete we count to one to ten and then backwards with Cleo, right there on the page to encourage and support us. This is a wonderful way to introduce children to the idea of exploring the small places around them, and to the concept of noticing the less impressive but no less important things right in their own back yard; the insects and flowers, rocks and trees. In the classroom the children can create a counting book of their own using things that they see their own yards or playground.

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