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Magical paper movements and ten mischievous monsters will attract the attention of young children who are struggling to learn their first number values. The task is made easier by these memorable creatures who have taken over the traditional human roles of reading, rowing, flying and driving a motorcar - and if any go missing they could be in your pocket, or under your bed.
Mike Simkin, CAROUSEL
Youngsters will laugh as they learn their numbers from silly characters in "10 Little Monsters" by Jonathan Emmett and Ant Parker. Big colours and huge type enhance the simple rhyming text that makes it fun to cruise through numbers one to ten and find the monsters trying on a coat, rowing a boat, climbing a tree or swimming in the sea.
Judy Green, THE SACRAMENTO BEE
This counting book from one to ten has a different pop-up each time you turn a page, and features numbers as big as your hand. The little monsters frolic in a tree, squeeze into the same coat, fly through the sky trapeze-style, and then wave goodbye to you at the end. There are some clever touches: on the first page, one monster is reading a book with the bold number 1 on the front cover (the book pops out from the page). If we peep behind and look at what the little monster is reading, there's an exact repeat of the page we have just seen: the little monster reading a book all about number 1. My favourite image is that for number 6, where six little monsters are swimming in the sea. Their bright eyes peep above the cut-out waves, and when the pages are opened and closed gently, the monsters bob up and down on the water. Dad of a two-year-old comments: "My daughter is just becoming interested in numbers, and these monsters are great. They get up to the kinds of things she does, only they're more outrageous - at the moment anyway."
BABYWORLD.CO.UK
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