Feature Friday is a new series I’ll be running on Fridays. I have so many great books to tell you about and they are piling up in my reading room. Unfortunately, there is not enough time in my day to share them all. I’m starting a new feature on my social media channels where I’ll share a quick video review of a few books including children’s, middle-grade, young adult, or adult fiction and nonfiction.
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ONE BROWN BEAR: The World of Numbers
By: Anne-Marie Labrecque & Mélissa Coallier
Illustrated by: Mathieu Dionne St-Arneault
Published: August 15, 2023
Publisher: Twirl
Non-Fiction
Board Book
A similar book about counting comes from the author/illustrator of ALICE ATE AN APPLE. This book has a hard outside cover with heavyweight, shiny pages that are easy for toddlers to turn but not easy for them to rip or tear. Each page focuses on a number. The digit, the number word, and the number word in cursive are shown on the page along with the number by holding up fingers and on a pair of dice. The opposite page has the items to count, for example, 8 bees.
Kids will learn to count from 1-20. The book is large enough to play macaroni or other items on the page to help with tactile counting as well. The end of the book features a grid of 1-100 and a page of 100 bees.
HAVE YOU SEEN MY SOCK?
By: Colombe Linotte
Illustrated by: Claudia Bielinsky
Published: August 15, 2023
Publisher: Twirl
Fiction
Board Book
An adorable board book from the author of WHO’S THE MOST…? includes a fun matching game at the end. All the animals are missing a sock. From an elephant to a zebra to a tiger, there seems to be a lot of missing socks. Who could have taken them? With a rhyming scheme, kids will find the idea of animals losing their socks to be silly.
The end of the book reveals who has all the missing socks and kids can open up the last pages to see a view of all the missing socks on a clothesline. They can play a game to match everyone’s socks back to their owner.