Australia: First Numbers is a counting book that starts Let’s count through this country…there is so much to see? leading the reader through a gallery of well known Australian animals and some not so familiar. Each animal is meticulously labelled eg the eight insects include the Golden Sun Moth, the Cairns Birdwing and the Red-Banded Jezebel. For the number ten she has done a magnificent page of sea life ‘slimy, sharp or round‘. At the end there is a page inviting the reader to count backwards but you can easily count forwards, and another one asking ‘how much higher can you count?‘
