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Can You Count Ten Toes?
by Lezlie Evans
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In this dynamic counting book you can learn to count in ten different languages: Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Tagalog, Russian, Hindi, Hebrew, and even Zulu! Amaze your teachers, impress your friends, and prepare yourself for world travel with this incredible counting book that's unlike any other. Lezlie Evans's jaunty rhyme and Denis Roche's vibrant illustrations are sure to intrigue young language learners.

School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 2

A fun and challenging concept book. Each two-page spread is introduced by a rhyme: (Can you count the different coins/spread across the table?/Speaking now in Zulu, try to/count them, if youre able) and includes the words for the numerals from 1 to 10 in a different language: Japanese, Russian, Korean, Hindi, Hebrew, Chinese, French, Tagalog, and Spanish. The gouache cartoon illustrations contain a playful display of the things being enumerated and feature a child from that culture interacting with a smiling cat. An outline map of the continents shows where each language is spoken. In addition to introducing languages, this book also provides a glimpse at other cultures. While younger children will enjoy sharing it with an adult, it is also suitable for beginning readers, who will peruse it at their own speed and memorize the words along the way.JoAnn Jonas, New York Public Library Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.