Max Counts His Chickens by Rosemary Wells

This is a great counting book to use with children that are just learning their numbers because it only goes up to ten. It is very simple and is about two little bunnies looking for marshmellow chicks on Easter morning. A child could really realate to this because this it a ritual that many children take part in on Easter. Ruby looks in all the right place for the marshmellows, while Max cannot find a single one throughout the hunt because he is looking in all the wrong places. While Max is looking, he is making a huge mess because he keeps pouring things out onto the floor. Next to the large number of how many chicks they have found, there are that many chicks all lined up. This would be great to have the child point to each chick and count them up on each page. When Ruby finds all ten chicks and Max has none, grandma calls the Easter bunny to tell him what has happened. This would probably get children excited to see that parents can actually call the Easter bunny. Then the Easter bunny brings Max his chicks and he starts counting them all out of order. I think this is also something good for a child learning to count to notice. He/she could point out that Max is counting wrong and try to help him by counting up to ten the right way.