Animal Numbers ¦ Animal Alphabet
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The illustration on the front of BfK this month is from Let's Go Home, Little Bear by Martin Waddell and illustrated by Barbara Firth (see Authorgraph for details). The book is published by Walker Books and we thank them for their help in using this illustration.
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Animal Alphabet
These large paperbacks are pure picture books, apart from a final page of animal facts in the former and the alphabetical list in the latter. Both are superbly executed collections of paintings set against large calligraphic symbols. Watch out, though - in the case of the counting book, you must only count the baby animals, for example, the five baby lizards crawling over the adult reptile. Neither is a first counting or alphabet book and I feel they're probably appreciated by adults rather than young children.