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Count Them While You Can ...: A Book of Endangered Animals (written and illustrated by Anne Bowman) introduces ten critically endangered animal species (through a repetitive, poetic song that also practices and reinforces the numbers one through ten). The rhyming text is actually an adaptation of the song Over in the Meadow and can be sung to its tune (it would have been an added bonus if a musical score for the song or an accompanying CD had been included, as not everyone will know the tune, the music for Over in the Meadow).

Although I find the text a bit too monotonous for my own personal tastes, I believe that for younger children, especially if this book is used as a read or sing aloud activity, the very repetitiveness of the rhyming sequence would likely not only help practice the numbers, but also reinforce both the names and habits of the ten endangered animal species featured.

The lush and wonderfully intricate, realistic illustrations not only bring each of the ten species and their habits, their struggles to life on the page, they also help to furhter reinforce the numbers, as each number featured corresponds to the quantity of baby animals illustrated. I also think that it was/is brilliant of Anne Bowman to feature not just adult animals, but family units (adults and their offspring). One cannot deny the "cuteness factor" of baby animals and anything that even somewhat helps to make children (and their parents as well, of course) more aware of the plight of many animals species, of the fact that there are animal species in imminent danger of extinction, is a very, very good thing indeed.

While Count Them While You Can is obviously first and foremost a book for younger children (ages three to five perhaps), the fact that Anne Bowman has also provided much supplemental (and scientifically detailed) information and data about the ten species of endangered animals (as well as information on endangered species in general) makes this book also a useful tool for discussing extinction, conservation etc. with slightly older children (who might not be all that partial to reading or singing the actual text, the song, but might well be curious about the habitats, sizes, eating habits, threats etc. of the ten featured species).
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gundulabaehre | Mar 31, 2013 |
Pub just after Mrs. Beeton's. Same size and compactness. Library rebound. 34 Lovely lithograph illus.
 
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kitchengardenbooks | Apr 9, 2010 |

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Werken
13
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23
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#537,598
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½ 4.3
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2
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5