The Strawberry Counting Book: One White Crocodile Smile

by Richard Hefter

Various numbers of articles introduce the numbers from one to ten, beginning with one white crocodile smile and ending with ten blue policemen named Ben.

30 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 1974

About the author

Richard Hefter met children's author Jacquelyn Reinach in 1975. He was contracted at the time to write 26 books for the publishers Holt. After the contract expired he formed a publishing venture, Euphrosyne, with Reinach.

He is known as the creator of Stickybear and as the co-creator (with Reinach) and illustrator for the Sweet Pickles[1] library of books, and for the Strawberry Library of First Learning. The Sweet Pickles series went on to sell 40 million copies. Hefter described his aim as "trying to help children understand things like shyness, laziness and embarrassment in a humorous way."

Reviews

[Ash · Rating 5 out of 5]

It saddens me that this book seems to be out of print. It was a great, used find for us.

This book teaches a bunch of different things all at once. It teaches colors, and numbers, counting forwards, and counting backwards, aaaand it had the numbers both spelled out and as actual numbers. So much can be taken from this fun little book. It's also a decent length. So a good nighttime read, that your child can interact with as they read the numbers and tell you the colors of the objects.

I normally wouldn't rate a book like this five stars. I like books with more story, but this is probably one of, if not THE, best books I've read of this kind. It teaches sooooo much at once, and it's easily read. So, five starts well earned.

[Jaylin Brooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

A crocodile finds dufferent numbers of objects, one to ten.