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K-Gr 4—This addition to animal counting books mixes in science and mathematical processing to share numbers from behaviors or events occurring over an animal's lifetime. The count begins with the single egg sac a cross spider produces in its lifetime. The count continues with 10 sets of antlers a caribou grows, then 20 fleeces for a llama, and up to 50...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The concepts of counting and quantity are cleverly examined in the context of animal lives. Schaefer presents the number of times an animal "performs one behavior or grows one feature" in its lifetime, starting with the single egg sac spun by a spider, moving through double-digit features such as the twenty fleeces produced by an alpaca, and up to the thousa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More