a. This counting book by Paul Giganti, Jr, illustrated by Donald Crews is a fun and different counting book as it actually does not have any numbers written in it. I enjoyed how the questions build off of one another, encouraging math skill development. It shows a few different types of animals and encourages children to count them, throughout the book and to spot the differences in the imagery. Not just “how many fish are red and how many are yellow?”, but “How many fish were there? How many fish were red? How many fish were red and had their mouths open?” (Giganti). This allows for children to count but also to notice subtle differences. I would read this in the classroom, children would enjoy this book and would be running as close to the pages as possible to count. ( )

This book was about someone wondering how many objects there were on the page. They wondered how many snails there were, then they wondered how many snails there were with strips. This book is a good book to teach counting to tell the number of objects there are on the page. This would be for young children that are learning to count. It is also a colorful book that I think children would enjoy. ( )

I think the different colored snails make it easy for children to differentiate between the snails when counting.

This is a fun book that allows children to count. This book is different though, in the sense that it only asked questions ("how many snails are there?", "how many snails with black stripes?", etc.) and did not provide the answers, like most counting books. I liked this because it allows the young children to count themselves and have their mistakes corrected by the person reading to them. ( )

I like this book because it involves math concepts for young children. It a great book to challenge children to compare and categorizing things while adding and subtracting. The illustrations are bright and colorful. That will attract the attention of young students. This book would make math a fun learning experience.