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

The best way to teach young kids is by not trying to teach them. This book gives you an opportunity to do just this with numbers. Because the machines come in a variety of colors you can go crazy and throw that piece of information into the mix. Once my son get older, I am looking forward to searching the pages for hidden numbers.

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.

my children like the pictures and they like counting all the objects in the pictures. not only do they count the main objects but they also count other items and point out the colors of things as well.

my son loves all truck books and I am surprised that he counts numbers looking at this book all by himself. I didn't expect him counting yet though. Perfect for for 2 and a half year old.

We read the book at school, provided by the district. He enjoyed it so I ordered him one to take home and read over the summer.

Nice book!

Love the additional notes and game/challenge in the back of the book! Perfect for 2 and 3 year olds.

My 2 1/2 year old son loves this book. It helps with number recognition as well as being fun to read. For the first couple of weeks he had to read it every single day! The hidden numbers are easy to find for "little" eyes.

My grandson loves this book