Self taught artist Diana Pomeroy, who creates beautiful illustrations using stamps cut from potatoes, presents a lovely counting picture-book in this, her debut title. From the eponymous one potato, to two eggplants, three ears of corn, four pears, and so on, each two-page spread here features some form of vegetable or fruit. After ten, the numbers jump to twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, and one hundred. A brief afterword gives more information about the potato-print-making process...

After discovering Pomeroy's unique artwork through her second (and final) title, Wildflower ABC: An Alphabet of Potato Prints, I immediately went looking for this initial work, and I am glad I did. Although I don't find produce quite as beautiful as flowers, the illustrations here are still incredibly lovely. I liked the fact that this counting book went beyond ten, which is unusual in the form, and I also appreciated the afterword, which gives more information about this easy method of print-making. As Pomeroy notes, it is a method particularly suited for child artists, as potatoes are easily come by, compared to other artistic materials, and can easily be replaced, if the stamp-making process is unsuccessful. Recommended to anyone looking for somewhat unusual counting books, or to readers curious about Pomeroy's artwork. For my part, I just wish she had created more books! ( )

"One Potato: A Counting Book of Potato Prints" by Diana Pomeroy is an easy book that counts items grown from the garden starting with one potato going up to one hundred sunflower seeds. All of the illustrations were created from potato art which instructions of how to create your own potato art on the last page. I think students would enjoy having a book like this read to them, and then incorporating the idea of creating their own number books using potato art. ( )

I'm not sure why this book was given a bad rating. It laid out different vegetables and fruit matching the number. 1 potato, 2 grapefruit, 3 watermelon. IT consecutively goes all the way to 10. Then it skips to 20, 30,40, 50...100. I actually learned that my son can count all the way to 50 when reading this book. It also has a neat recipe in the back of the book. ( )

I love when books give you an activity at the end so that you can create your own imitations. I also like the thick paper used and the counting to beyond 10.