Ten Little Beasties

by Ed Emberley, Emberley (Illustrator)

Overview

Ed and Rebecca Emberley bring bold, bright, and bad little beasties to life on the page to make counting fun!

If there's one thing beasties love to do, it's dance! When one little beastie is joined by two little, three little, and more little beasties, we count UP until there's a party on the page. But when one of the little beastie starts trouble, it's time to start counting DOWN.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429961516
Publisher:	Roaring Brook Press
Publication date:	08/02/2011
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	2 - 6 Years

About the Author

REBECCA EMBERLEY and her father ED EMBERLEY, winner of the Caldecott Medal for Drummer Hoff, have created the highly praised picture books Chicken Little and The Red Hen for Roaring Brook Press.

Editorial Reviews

…a feast of beasts and brilliant colors for young readers.” —School Library Journal

“It's survival of the fittest in this wild counting book.” —Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

The Emberleys' romp joins the heavily populated field of titles loosely based on common childhood rhymes.

Abstract monsters created in mostly black and white cavort against vibrant backgrounds. As the group gathers, the counting begins: "One little / two little / three little beasties..," Once all 10 are assembled, they dance for one spread. Turn the page—surprise—one beastie gobbles up another. And so the carnivorous countdown commences. Counting up to 10 and back down again is nothing new. What grabs readers here are the primitive-looking beasties populating the pages. Each beast has some unique identifiable shape or special additional colors: One has a striped horn, one flashes a blue zippered mouth and one sports an elaborate white spiral on its body. This helps in keeping track of the creatures for counting purposes, but that task is often challenging, as some spreads only show parts of a beastie. As most concept books are aimed squarely at preschoolers, this effort may suffer from audience confusion; it could be difficult finding readers who have the patience to puzzle it out. The cover urges readers to "download the song and read along!" At the time of this review, the link was not available.

Perhaps the audio addition will add some much-needed magic to this dizzying outing, but as a stand-alone book, this offers little appeal.(Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews