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One Big Building: A Counting Book About Construction (Know Your Numbers)

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I feel well qualified to read this book, since my son has demanded I read it every night since he got it for his birthday. I have a sneaking suspicion that I may yet get even more familiar with it. Call it a hunch.

Anyway, as books you're forced to read sometimes multiple times a day go, this one is a winner. The counting aspect is excellent -- every page has the number written out ("three"), numerically represented "3", represented by dots, and represented by nicely-countable objects. So far so good. However, there's room to change things up once you get really bored. There is a "hidden" number on each page -- not so hidden that a three year old won't find it, but hidden enough that they'll feel proud of themselves. The objects also have nice colors and shapes, so you can talk about those if you can't face reading the text one more time.

Best of all, the book has a wide range of "kinds" of construction workers: men and women of all colors. My favorite page is probably the "Eight bosses, worried the weather will turn bad." It's not just white men on that bosses page.

This is an excellent book to have in the repertoire of a truck-obsessed young child.

Michael Dahl has a whole series of these books that help teach kids basic counting. All of them are filled with bright, attractive illustrations that make these books very lively. I bought this book for my 2 year old son and it has become a favorite for both him and my 4 year old daughter. As a fun addition, there are also hidden numbers on every page that they love to look for. I would recommend this book highly.

The kids love this book and really enjoyed finding the hidden number. We have read it so much they have it memorized.