cover image Ten Puppies

Ten Puppies

Lynn Reiser. Greenwillow Books, $15.99 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-06-008644-2

Learning is elementary with this collection of concept books. Lynn Reiser uses Ten Puppies to count to 10 in multiple ways. After a shaggy brown dog, whose tag reads ""MOM,"" adopts 10 puppies from a shelter, she groups them by different characteristics, such as ""Nine had pink tongues. One had a blue tongue,"" always adding up to 10. The motley medley of mutts appears in panels on backgrounds of solid colors.