Why read Counting to Bananas?

Book cover of Counting to Bananas: A Mostly Rhyming Fruit Book

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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?

Danna Smith

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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…

From Danna's 3 favorite reads in 2023.