This 6.5″ X 7.5″ counting book is one of the BEST I have ever wanted to use with young children!

The top 2/3s of each page captures the word “Nature” from the book’s title with  a bright, colorful, close-up look of an item from nature just begging to be counted by the young reader: mushrooms, bird’s eggs, acorns, tulips, dewdrops, icicles, and 14 more.

Below the photo are two sentences. The first sentence includes the name of the item to be counted. The second sentence states the number of items to be counted. “Lotus seeds grow in a pod. This pod has 13 seeds.”  (p. 16)

Below the sentences is a thee part display:  gives a display of dots, followed by an “equal sign”, followed by the numeral, followed by an equal sign, followed by the numeral written as a word.        ***  =  3  =  three

Finally, across the bottom of each page is a number line from 1 to 20. The numeral for each page is highlighted with an arrow pointing to it from below. YES, this book does count to twenty!

The only down side of this book would be the color selection for the book’s front cover. Mauve  and pinks while attractive to an adult might not make the book jump out to the young reader.