Let's Count Goats! (original 2010; edition 2010)

by Mem Fox, Jan Thomas (Illustrator)

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The reader is invited to count goats of many shapes, sizes, hobbies, and professions.

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Member:	YMcMillion
Title:	Let's Count Goats!
Authors:	Mem Fox
Other authors:	Jan Thomas (Illustrator)
Info:	Beach Lane Books (2010), Hardcover, 40 pages
Collections:	Your library
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Let's count goats by Mem Fox (2010)

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Genre
Australian fiction
Counting books
Humorous stories
Picture books for children
Stories in rhyme
Tone
Funny
Writing Style
Attention-grabbing
Illustration
Big and bold
Cartoony
Colorful
Subject
Animals
Counting
Goats
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kmgerbig | May 1, 2023 |

The illustrations are very Jan Thomas like which makes sense since she is the author. Great rhyme that seamlessly goes from suggesting to counting how many goats in different scenes. Great for storytime! (

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jherring | Sep 1, 2016 |

Similar to Where Is The Green Sheep? but with counting. If you pause to count, though, it interrupts the rhyming flow of the text, especially at the end ("Can you count their pricked-up ears? You can? I'm not surprised!")

Simple illustrations in bright colors on bright backgrounds with bold black outlines. (

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JennyArch | Feb 3, 2016 |

How many goats? Lets count them and see. This rhyming book is great to introduce math to children. It allow the children to interact as you read it. (

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jaimie919 | Apr 19, 2013 |

A fun read aloud for the preschool crowd. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Fox, Mem	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Thomas, Jan	Illustrator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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The Best Children's Books of the Year (Under Five – 2011)

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Let's count goats

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2010

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For Theo --M.F.

For Charlie --J.T.

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Here we see a mountain goat frisking in the sun.

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The reader is invited to count goats of many shapes, sizes, hobbies, and professions.

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This book is a great way to engage and introduce children into the world of math utilizing goats, outlandish imagery, animals and humor to entice children to count. The book moves from 1 - 10 along the way asking children to identify aspects of the images to count.

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