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Bryant, Laura J.

This Little Pup

40 pp. | Whitman | April, 2020 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8075-7865-0 $16.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-8075-7864-3
(2) PS On a farm a large blue ball, tossed by a boy for his puppy to chase, leads readers across wide horizontal pages on a counting expedition from one to ten. "One blue ball... / bounced by two brown cows. / Two brown cows... / spied three green frogs. / Three green frogs..." Each double-page spread teases readers about what might be coming next and then yields a new surprise in a higher quantity. Full of texture and bright color contrasted with plenty of white space, the illustrations make it satisfyingly easy and appealing to identify what needs to be counted on each spread. Meanwhile, the ball bounces along, with the puppy chasing behind. By the time the ball bounces past nine squawking black hens and their ten yellow chicks, the spreads are bursting with animal activity, and persistent counters will be able to find all the creatures from the previous pages together on one culminating double-page spread. In the end, the puppy finally does catch its bouncing ball and delivers it back to the boy, ensuring that the adventure can begin all over again.
Reviewer: Julie Roach | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2020

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