Books like One, Two, Three!: A Happy Counting Book
By Sandra Boynton
For the kid learning to count on fingers and volume levels at the same time, this one turns numbers into a game of quiet and loud. Bouncy, silly, and full of buildup — a rowdy climb to loud, and a calm settle back down.
The numbers 1 through 100 race each other up an apple tree in a rhyming chant, piling higher and higher until bumblebees threaten trouble at the top.
A parade of rhyming oddballs takes readers from near to far and here to there — a bumpy Wump, a singing Ying, a winking Yink who drinks pink ink — with no plot but plenty of silly counting and rhyming along the way.
All the letters of the alphabet race each other up a coconut tree, chanting chicka chicka boom boom, until so many pile on that the whole tree tumbles them down.
Seven quirky dinosaurs — including zooming Zoomer, sleepy Dozy, and weepy Sob — take turns starring in their own tiny tabbed story, each with a personality all its own.
A boy tours his own house room by room, discovering odd made-up creatures hiding in ordinary spots — a Wocket in his pocket, a Vug under his rug, a Yeps on the steps.
Ten red apples hang on the farmer's tree, and one by one a horse, cow, pig, duck, and other farm animals wander by, each neighing, mooing, or oinking before munching an apple down.
A parade of dinosaurs shows off opposites — big and tiny, plump and lean, early and later — while sunbathing, dancing, painting, and packing into an elevator.
One hungry fox with two sly eyes stalks three plump hens across a moonlit farmyard, and each page adds a new number and a new reason to hold your breath.
When evening falls, a crowd of bats flutters from the rafters to fill a moonlit stadium, watching their own all-stars play a topsy-turvy game of baseball.
On a scorching day, Junie and Jake, Poppa, and the baby set off for the lake in a rattling, wheezing car that doesn't go fast and doesn't go far.
A cat gets a cupcake and asks for sprinkles to go with it, setting off a chain of requests and small messes that just keeps looping back on itself.
