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Counting in the Garden
"Counting in the Garden" celebrates the joy of growing flowers, fruits, and vegetables in one's very own garden. This chunky board book is a visual feast from one to twelve. Young children will love finding and counting all of the garden treats. Every other page introduces a new plant into the mix until ultimately all twelve plants are featured together in the final, abundantly overgrown garden. "Counting in the Garden" is sure to appeal to eco-conscious parents and their "green" little kids.
58 pages, Board Book
First published June 1, 2011
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April 8, 2024
It serves the purpose of a counting book very well. The art is okay.
April 14, 2014
A cute board book about a garden compromised of 1-12 plants of different varietals. A great resource for learning fruits and veggies and practicing counting.
January 23, 2019
The 13-ISBN for the book I read is 978-162326063-7. I decided not to add another edition.
This counting board book is visually appealing for babies, young kids, and adults, because of its rich colors, simple yet clear images, and step-by-step way of introducing new foods, plants, and animals, all while adding to the garden.
The foods, plants, and animals used for this counting book were all appropriate for what you see in a garden and would help teach children about more than just the foods that are grown in one.
However, my issue is that the beginning and end pages of the story focus on growing things to eat, so butterflies and snails don't fit-- unless you mean for escargot, which is not likely.
This counting board book is visually appealing for babies, young kids, and adults, because of its rich colors, simple yet clear images, and step-by-step way of introducing new foods, plants, and animals, all while adding to the garden.
The foods, plants, and animals used for this counting book were all appropriate for what you see in a garden and would help teach children about more than just the foods that are grown in one.
However, my issue is that the beginning and end pages of the story focus on growing things to eat, so butterflies and snails don't fit-- unless you mean for escargot, which is not likely.
March 9, 2020
What an utterly adorable and cheerful book. The bright, stylized, folk-art style illustrations evoke shapes cut from construction paper. We get to inspect all the plants and critters in the garden, side-by-side with the happiest boy in the history of gardening. There's an onion, and two tasty turnips, and 3 tiny thistles that grew by accident. What's not to love? The text flows effortlessly and happily, without forcing words into rhymes. Alliterations abound as the garden gradually fills up with a variety of plants and animals. And it all ends with a delicious harvest! Truly a treat of a book. I also love that we get to count to 12 instead of stopping at 10, as most early-childhood counting books do.
September 22, 2023
Cute cartoony illustrations of various things that might grow in a garden (sunflowers, tomatoes, thistles, tulips etc.).
Also, minor point, but where I live tulips and sunflowers (etc.) don't bloom at the same time. So - take warning if you live in a climate with winters and care about that kind of thing.
Also, minor point, but where I live tulips and sunflowers (etc.) don't bloom at the same time. So - take warning if you live in a climate with winters and care about that kind of thing.
September 28, 2017
As good as Growing Vegetable Soup.
October 11, 2017
Wonderful counting book! It is simple, an easy, relaxed pace, and each time an element is added to the garden the page pops with more color. A must-have for counting books.
February 25, 2015
Patrick Hruby. Counting in the Garden. (2013). A counting book that goes from 1-12 about a young farmer that enjoys growing things in his garden and counting them. The items range from fruits, vegetables, and animals. After the item has been counted, it's added to the garden. Over the course of the book the garden fills up. It's a cute book with simple flat computer generated graphic illustrations. The numbers are very large and easy to read. This would work with many different units such as counting, gardening, spring, fruits/vegetables, and farms. Target audience: 2-8.
October 28, 2011
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“Counting in the Garden” celebrates the outdoors while introducing numbers at the same time. Curious little readers will have fun recognizing flowers, fruits and vegetables. A new garden treat is introduced on every other page, while the following pages bring together all the previous produce until all twelve come together in the final spread. Almost set up as finding game, the book encourages counting while showing off the bounty that surrounds us.
“Counting in the Garden” celebrates the outdoors while introducing numbers at the same time. Curious little readers will have fun recognizing flowers, fruits and vegetables. A new garden treat is introduced on every other page, while the following pages bring together all the previous produce until all twelve come together in the final spread. Almost set up as finding game, the book encourages counting while showing off the bounty that surrounds us.
May 24, 2016
This book has creepy illustrations of the boy, and I have trouble not reading it in the voice of the Count from Sesame Street.
However, it counts to 12, has a neat if inaccurate illustration which aggregates all the plants in his garden as he goes. Has a boy gardening, which seems rare in kids books. And Connor adores it.
However, it counts to 12, has a neat if inaccurate illustration which aggregates all the plants in his garden as he goes. Has a boy gardening, which seems rare in kids books. And Connor adores it.
February 9, 2013
What I like best about this counting book is that between each new item to count, the book returns to an overview of the garden including all the items that have thus far been counted. This makes it a superior learning tool to most counting books I have tried.
April 15, 2014
I couldn't decide if I really liked the bold graphic design of the pictures or if the boy in the pictures slightly creeped me out? I did like that it counted all the way to 12; most books stop counting at 10. Counting the snails was a bit confusing, imho. Liked most of the pages quite a bit.
October 6, 2014
Didn't hold my daughter's interest. Illustrations w shades of Charley Harper but she much prefers our actual Charley Harper board books. Rhythm limps - would love a suggestion of a different gardening book!
February 25, 2016
We're all about counting and gardens, but this book just didn't do it for us. The illustrations are garish and might have been produced by a prodigy in an early version of Microsoft Paint. (It's probably just a personal preference thing.)
May 12, 2011
Counting from 1 to 12 with a mix of what grows in the garden and creatures found there.
July 24, 2011
Fantastic board book. Not only is this a counting book, it is visually stimulating. You could ask your child the colors along with counting.
October 27, 2011
Hooray! This title has been re-formatted and published as a picture book, with much improvement over the original board book format.
February 6, 2012
perfect for a garden/spring baby storytime
August 7, 2012
This board book counts to 12. It features a combination vegetable and decorative flower. The illustrations are stylized in an interesting computer generated way.
July 2, 2013
I really like this counting book. What makes it different? It counts things in the garden, then goes back to an overview of the garden every other page.
May 28, 2014
Great mid-century modern details in the illustrations!
August 8, 2014
beautifully executed picture book. I wish I had it in big book format for story time.
December 15, 2014
Illustrations left me a bit creeped.
December 27, 2014
charming charley harper-style illustrations. great read for toddlers, especially for gardeners or farmers.
March 16, 2015
Really enoyed the colorful, bold illustrations and the wordless page that showed where the next garden item fit in. It felt a little crowded by the end though with a lot going on.
January 11, 2016
Not as pretty as the other Counting In The Garden, but a solid counting book with a neat illustration style. Recommended for ages 3-5.
May 20, 2025
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