CAN YOU COUNT TEN TOES?

Evans, Lezlie. CAN YOU COUNT TEN TOES?

Can You Count Ten Toes is about counting to ten in ten different languages. This is a great way to incorporate learning about other languages. The students should master English numbers first, because English is not accounted for in this book. I don’t know if the students would be able to learn all of the other languages, but it would be a fun activity to learn a few of the numbers. One of the cool things about this book is the languages that the author chose to use. To me, the languages used are very unique dialogs that we don’t often hear about such as Zulu, Hindi, and Tagalog.
Each page counts to ten using different items such as toes, hats, and lightening bugs. There is a poem at the top of each page and it acknowledges which language is going to be used. Then numbered in English is one through ten and next to that is the featured language one through ten and also in parenthesis how to pronounce it. The font is large and spaced out so it is easy to read.
I don’t care for the pictures in this book because they are too simple and use very dull colors in my opinion. The characters have beady eyes and not much detail is put into the drawings.