Counting with Barefoot Critters

by Teagan White

Overview

"What is a day of counting with barefoot critters? Making pancakes, reading, camping, swimming, learning about numbers. Join this ... cast of animal characters as they explore numbers and counting over the course of a day, having fun at all stops along the way."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780735263239
Publisher:	Tundra
Publication date:	01/09/2018
Pages:	30
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 2 Years

About the Author

TEAGAN WHITE is a freelance designer and illustrator from Chicago, now living and working in Minnesota, where they earned their BFA in Illustration from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Their work encompasses intricate drawings of flora and fauna, playful watercolors of anthropomorphic critters, illustrated typography, and everything in between. Teagan lives in the woods across the street from train tracks and a fox den, and spends their free time scolding neighborhood squirrels, exploring forests, rivers, lakes, and swamps, picking wildflowers, and collecting animal bones. This is their second book featuring the Barefoot Critters — Adventures with Barefoot Critters was their first picture book. Teagan lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Editorial Reviews

A charming cumulative counting tale. . . . it's a charmer.” - Kirkus Reviews

“Sturdy, gentle rhymes guide readers through a day’s worth of fun. . . . White’s endearing watercolor and gouache illustrations create a cozy woodland world that readers will be eager to revisit.” - Publishers Weekly

“Count on this appealing title to enliven concept books collections.” - School Library Journal

“Counting with Barefoot Critters follows a timeless formula that never fails to captivate a young audience, and the story charms with its simplicity. It is particularly suited as a bedtime counting tale.” - CM Magazine

"Teaching children literacy and numeracy can be a long and frustrating feat — luckily for you, Teagan White has made this task cuter than ever. . . . An excellent choice for pre-school and kindergarten students." —Green Teacher Magazine

From the Publisher

2016-06-28
Barefoot but otherwise clothed critters have a full day, collecting friends along the way.A gray fox girl enjoys a bit of time by herself. “A quiet day reading is perfect for one. / Books take you everywhere under the sun. / But when the story is over you might start to feel blue / And realize your day would be better with… // Two!” Two friends are perfect for making pancakes, but after a yummy breakfast, playing outside is more fun with three than two. Four is a great number of buddies for getting chores done swiftly, and so on. One critter of a different species (including a triceratops) is added to the ever more diverse troupe of friends for each new task or event…until they head home with 12: “As the forest grows dark we head home for the night, / Led by our friend with good evening eyesight. / The stories are spooky and darkness is near / But with us twelve together, there’s nothing to fear.” And the gray fox beds down alone, one again. White’s follow-up to Adventures with Barefoot Critters (2014) is a charming cumulative counting tale, though the verse occasionally strains for rhyme and scansion. Both boys and girls are represented (distinguished by such stereotypical visual clues as attire and presence or absence of eyelashes) in the pastel-hued watercolor illustrations. Despite quibbles, it’s a charmer. (Picture book. 2-7)

Kirkus Reviews