The Counting Story: Counting Book

The book Counting Story by Rolando Merino was created by him and his son, Tommy. It is an electronic book that has the readers be enter active. This book introduces numbers and gives the reading something fun to connect the numbers too. For number one, there is a pink bunny to the side waving and it say, "One rabbit waves Hello." For the number two, it says, "These two rabbits hop and hop" with an animation of two pink rabbits hopping on the side. The number three has rabbits the hop out of a hole, the number four has four rabbits eating carrots, the number five has five bunnies sitting on a log, the number six has rabbits hopping and flipping, the number seven has seven bunnies swinging on a swing, the number eight has eight bunnies coming out of a hat, the number nine has nine bunnies taking a bath, the number ten has ten bunnies brushing their teeth, and the number eleven has eleven bunnies sleeping in their bed. On each page, along with the text, there is the number written and the animation of the bunnies performing the activity described in the text.
This book was a surprise find for me but I really like it. It is something that can be brought into the classroom to help young students become familiar with numbers while using technology. The animations make the book fun and interactive. A teacher can read the text to the students if they are too young to read on their own while they watch the animations of the bunnies on the side. I think it is good to bring in non traditional books to the classroom and this is perfect example. With the amount of technology in our society today, young children need to be familiar with it and how it can be used educationally and not just for entertainment. The book can be read at http://www.magickeys.com/books/count/page1.html

Merino, Rolando (1998). The Counting Story. http://www.magickeys.com/books/count/index.html.