How to Two
Review posted September 20, 2024.
Dial Books for Young Readers, 2019. 36 pages.
Review written October 4, 2022, from a library book.
Starred Review
Counting books are a staple for parents to share with young children, and this is a beautiful one. You're counting children playing!
First, we see one child launching off a playground slide, and the words read:
How to one.
That's pretty much how the text goes. "How to two" shows two kids on a seesaw.
At six, there's a rainstorm, and the six kids play duck, duck goose under a shelter. The kids go further afield as the numbers get bigger, with "How to eight" involving Hide-and-Seek, and "How to ten" being a grand game of tag.
As the sun sets and parents take all the kids home again, the numbers go back down more quickly. And I almost missed it -- but the endpapers at the back show animals to go back and count for each number.
The art is beautiful, the kids are exuberant, and the book does the job of teaching counting from 1 to 10.