John Langstaff (1920–2005)

Because the text of this book is a song, it has a wonderful rhythm for reading aloud. Alternatively, you can sing it while turning the pages! Rojankovsky's illustrations have a lovely sketched quality which present charming pastoral scenes for each animal family without the animals becoming anthromorphized. This book also helps with learning the counting numbers 1-10, as the song progresses from the tortoise with one tortoise child to the rabbit with ten rabbit children. Cecelia loves to listen to and sing the song while following the illustrations in the book.… (más)