CA 2012 USDA Approved NE Materials Using the common experience of shopping and preparing dinner, this book, which features an African-American family, teaches youngsters the numbers from 1 to 10. A counting book that features an African-American family shopping for food, preparing dinner, and sitting down to eat. Lively read-aloud text. What does it take to make a feast for 10 hungry people? Start with one shopping cart, two pumpkins, three chickens. . . . In bouncy rhymed text, count to 10 once in the grocery store as the children help Mama shop, and again at home as everyone lends a hand to prepare the meal. Full-color illustrations. 'Impressive collages . . . A joyful celebration of family and food.' |