Ten Bush Babies Let’s Add

Ten Bush Babies Let’s Add Written by Grace Nolan & Illustrated by Nancy Bevington (Big Sky Publishing) PB RRP AU$24.99 ISBN 9 781922 896582

Reviewed by Robyn Gillies

This is an adorable counting-to-ten book featuring Australian bush babies. As they race to win the cup, young readers can have fun learning to count to ten using rhyme, rhythm and a touch of repetition.

Well-known bush babies are used in the story, and other, less well-known ones are introduced, providing a great opportunity to explore beyond the book for inquisitive minds.

The illustrations are lively, fun, colourful and full of ‘baby’ antics. The pages include numbers and symbols for addition to support the language being used.

There are counting activities at the end that provide an opportunity to reinforce learning, but the story stands on its own in terms of enjoyment.

This book could be described as having at least three layers: it tells a simple story, its illustrations are delightful on their own, and it introduces symbols to demonstrate numbers.

This is book two in a series of three early learner books by the same author and illustrator: Ten Naughty Numbats Let’s Count & Ten Lively Lorikeets Let’s Subtract.