How Many Elephants?: A Lift-the-Flap Counting Book

By Selby B. Beeler

Book Overview

Pay no attention to the elephants dancing behind you! The running visual joke in this lift-the-flap counting book will provoke more giggles with every new number. Let's count things. How many elephants are in your closet? Well, as every child knows, that's a silly question! See, no elephants in here! Zero! Let's get on to more reasonable things to count: shoes behind the curtain, markers in the box, toy dinosaurs in the drawer. And no, there are still no elephants in the closet - though someone seems to have left a trail of peanut shells in there. And why are ten pachyderms partying outside the window?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763615838
• ISBN13: 9780763615833
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 20 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.5" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 2 to 5 years

Customer Reviews

My daughter loves this book

We have dozens and dozens of kids books around the house, but this is one of the few that our daughter (2 years old) constantly picks from the shelf to read. She enjoys finding the elephants, and counting the different things on each page. The story is fun and easy to follow, and the illustrations seem to draw her back agani and again. I would highly recommend this book.

A Great Gift for Toddlers

As a grandmother, I was delighted to find this fun and imaginative approach to learning how to count coupled with something to open on every page revealing surprises galore. The writing style is simple for preschool children to understand and the drawings clearly illuminate the counting principles. This will be a favorite gift this year for my young grandchildren!

From SherriAllen.com

How Many Elephants?: A Lift-The-Flap Counting Book, written by Selby Beeler and illustrated by Barney Saltzberg, is both amusing and educational. The book begins with a search for elephants in a child's bedroom closet. During the silly game of hide-and-seek, readers discover and count a variety of ordinary objects. Counting from 0 - 10, readers will develop their counting skills without even realizing they're learning; they will think they're just enjoying the story and its fun, simple illustrations. Of course, readers are rewarded for all their hard work with a great surprise at the end. The construction of the book is well done. The thin posterboard pages and flaps are strong and hold up to repeated openings by very enthusiastic youngsters. Whether you are looking for a book to help your children learn to count or to simply entertain them, How Many Elephants?: A Lift-The-Flap Counting Book is an excellent choice!