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Summary: Excellent!!
Review: I have given this book to many children and ALL have loved it! I would recommend any of the books by this author/illustrator to parents with young children, but they may want to keep some for themselves. Few books offer the simpilicity that this one does...and all the children I have shared this book with have wanted to read it again and again. I guess that is part of what makes the world go around....we all like different things, but I have never seen a child put this book back on the shelf and ask for another!
Rating: 
Summary: It's barely okay
Review: If you are looking for a plain-jane numbers book to teach your kids just numbers with some okay pulltabs and flipcovers. Or, if you believe in the theory of kids learning better with just simple black-n-white contrasting colors on a blank page. Get This! don't wait. I got this book after I saw the cover, thinking that the insides will be colorful backgrounds with animals hanging all over the numbers; and maybe more animals when you pull tabs or flip open covers. NO! here is what I got, colorful hardbound cover. Except for the inside of the front cover and inside of the back cover (which has some animal print motif as the background) Every single one of the 10 inside pages were blank-noir (yes, there are only 10 - because nobody in the publishing business ever counts the front and back cover as pages). White - no background of animals or colorful splashes. Solid black numbers with pulltabs or flip-open covers of moderately interesting(yawn) animals... The publisher of this book should have mentioned the fact that they intended in saving money by skipping on the ink. Yes, I am afraid that Amazon's little editoral synopsis's of "full color" applies only to the cardboard cover itself.I don't think I am expecting too much here. I am expecting some fun colors in the background of the numbers. I got ripped! This is not a book for 3 and older kids. Maybe better for an extremely young infant before they have discovered the world of colors. 2 star only because it does have pull outs of animals, and compared to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0763607320 - Robert Crowther's Most Amazing Hide-And-Seek Alphabet Book, the action on the pullout and the flipcovers produces much improved and more interesting affects (To be fair, I got interested in the action on some of the pullouts for about 5 minutes, and as usual, my kids derived a bit more out of this... still I have seen comparable, if not better, pullouts with more thought provoking backgrounds...) (and to be even fairer, note that it goes beyond 1 to 10, on the last few pages, it goes thru 20 thru 100 by tens; and these larger numbers hide that many number of tiny critters under the corresponding tab - cute).
Rating: 
Summary: It is cute, but could certainly be more eye-catching
Review: If you like minimalism, you will like this book. Some of the pop-ups are nice, but with only black numbers on a white page, there is not much to attract a younger child. My 13 mo old thoroughly enjoys every tab, and flap of Chuck Murphy's pop-up books, here, most of them are blah, since they come with miniscule portions of animals, though some effects are cute. I liked the 10 butterflies, and more of the same would have been good! And while being small, the illustrations are not even totally true to life/realistic etc. as a saving grace. They look like doodles you or I might do on the magna-doodle!
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Summary: It is cute, but could certainly be more eye-catching
Review: If you like minimalism, you will like this book. Some of the pop-ups are nice, but with only black numbers on a white page, there is not much to attract a younger child. My 13 mo old thoroughly enjoys every tab, and flap of Chuck Murphy's pop-up books, here, most of them are blah, since they come with miniscule portions of animals, though some effects are cute. I liked the 10 butterflies, and more of the same would have been good! And while being small, the illustrations are not even totally true to life/realistic etc. as a saving grace. They look like doodles you or I might do on the magna-doodle!
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