Ten, Nine, Eight Board Book: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner (Caldecott Collection)

This book is on my entering-kindergartner's Summer Reading List and I can certainly understand its inclusion: good art and good story. The drawings of father and child are just so sweet and endearing. My children can not get enough of it. Every night they want to put their little toes over the ones that are 'washed and warm' in the book. We count our window panes, and give kisses on 'cheeks and nose' too. An excellent bedtime book. It is also the only book out of the 30 or so that we have read thus far, that made me say: darn I wish that I had run across this book alot earlier. Definitely worth adding to the home library.

The book ten, Nine, Eight was about a young girl who is getting ready for bed and counting things on her way. The book used pictures to show the numbers one-ten and to help young kids incorporate the counting with pictures. The reading level for this book is pre-school or kindergarten, someone just learning to read or count.

Like all of Bang's work, this book is beautiful. The simple countdown to bedtime is made lively by the comforting illustrations of toys and other objects in the nursery; this cosiness is heightened even more by the snow outside the window. The ending is genuinely sweet. A winner.

My two year old daughter loves this book. It is a sweet book counting down to a little girls bedtime. The book goes through the little girls nighttime bedtime ritual, much like our daughters own bedtime countdown. At the end my daughter will always say "Night night!". I also like the presence of the little girls father in the book. You don't always see this in kids books.