Monday 22 October 2012

Animal Counting by Petr Horacek



This is a hardback, big-sized book that takes you through the numbers 1-10. The pop-up element of the book is not your typical type of pop-up. This is because the pop-up doesn't happen when you open the page. Rather the pop-up is hidden under a flap on each page. This is actually good because it makes the pop-ups less rip-able by little hands (although still rip-able), and instead little hands can open the flaps, which obviously gets them more involved than similar number books of the non-pop-up kind.

The double-page spreads contain a picture of some animals, with the number of them being consistent with the corresponding number (1-10). These are painted to make them realistic. Then under the flap at the side of this is the pop-up number which is the animal in cartoon version contorting himself into the shape of the number. The pages also have text, e.g. one spotty giraffe.

My daughter is just learning her numbers now and she likes to lift those flaps so she can touch those pop-up bits, so maybe a bit of supervision will be required if you want the book to remain intact, plus once she has learnt her numbers the book will lose its usefulness.


(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed here.)

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