The town's official measurer is consumed with measuring and counting, missing out on life's simple pleasures, until he breaks his glasses.

Learn to count from one to ten in English and Spanish, while also learning the ingredients of a burrito.

On his way into town, Mr. Tweed helps his animal friends find a variety of missing items, including one kite, five arrows, and nine balloons.

"On the first day of first grade I had fun right away... Count twelve fun-filled firsts of first grade!" --cover p. 4

A series of yawning, pajama-clad animals count down as they prepare to go to sleep.

In the heart of the city, among the taxis and towers, a small boy travels uptown and down, searching for his friend. Readers will certainly spot the glorious beast, plus an array of big-city icons they can count. Is the dragon taking the crosstown bus, or breathing his fiery breath below a busy street? Maybe he took a taxi to the zoo or is playing with the dogs in the park.

When the animals play hide and seek, Elephant finds everyone but Chameleon, who has hidden so well no one can find him.

After meeting a dog during a walk, a little girl declares that she wants one hundred dogs, but as her parents point out all the difficulties, she gradually reduces the number--until she gets the one dog she really wants.

In this cumulative rhyme, a tiny island in the middle of the sea "just big enough for me and Annie McPhee," rapidly becomes very crowded with increasingly larger groups of animals.

Who's that singing on the savanna? It's the top-five ugly animals in Africa! The wildebeest, warthog, vulture, hyena and marabou stork swagger proudly across the savanna, rejoicing in their ugliness-and delighting their babies, who think they're perfect just the way they are.