Carolyn Lesser

Spots: Counting Creatures from Sky to Sea challenges the reader to count spots on animals found all over the world. The author's playful language made me want to keep turning the page to see what animal I would encounter next. I dove into the deep blue sea with one leopard stingray and flew in the sky with ten butterflies. This book will help younger students count from numbers 1 to 10 and they will also go on a global adventure.

This book is great and incorporates both science and math. Throughout the story the reader counts from 1 to 10 learning about different animals along the way. The illustrations were bright and colorful which keeps younger readers attention. I think this book would be great for a read aloud.

This is a fun counting book using spotted creatures that are from the sky to the sea. This is a creative book that describes animals that are spotted and how many are on each page. For example, "Slinking, prowling, hunting spots...two sleek jaguars". After counting to ten it reviews all the numbers from 1-10. This is a wonderful book that incorporates math, science because of the animals, and English because of the describing words for the animals spots.

This story is fiction, but it is scientifically accurate so it is close to a non-fiction book. It shows a year in the life of a full-grown male polar bear. It shows how he travels, hunts, eats, mates, helps teach the young to fight and gradually gets thinner and thinner as the seasons progress, until he starts over again. This book could easily be used when studying Arctic Animals, Ecosystems and Global warming and its affect on wildlife. The story is told in freeform poetry style which is show more very lyrical and easy to read. The illustrations are wonderful. They are torn paper with some painting. A great addition to a public, school or class library. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via netgalley. show less