Book description
A hilarious, mostly-rhyming picture book about a banana and narrator who can't quite agree on what their book is about. Perfect for fans of Mo Willems' We Are in a Book and Adam Rex's Nothing Rhymes With Orange!
"Mo Willems fans will give this book one, two, three, four, five…
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1 author picked Counting to Bananas as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Not only is this book hilarious, Banana can’t wait to be in the spotlight and keeps interrupting the narrator—when will it be Banana’s turn?, but I love it when a book can ap“peel” (pun intended 😊) to all the kids in the family.
It’s a counting book, so there is math, of course, but it includes “skip counting” too (counts 1-10 then by 10’s and 20’s but to 100), so it stretches to fit older kids who have gone past counting from 1-10. It’s also a book about animals (and fruit), and it’s written in spot-on rhyme. I read…
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