• A counting book of how many family members-father, mother, daughter, cat, and dog-are on the bed, off the bed, under the covers, over the covers.
• With an ending of five on the bed, ready for sleep, the book can also serve bedtime reading.
• Shows playful interaction during one evening on the family bed inspired by the author's own family and characters are based on people the author knows.
• Unique, papercut art provides a 3D effect with interesting texture and details for little eyes to find on the page.
• Simple text helps young children learn and understand numbers while it soothes with easy, repetitive phrases.
• Learning prepositions that describe spatial relationships is an important part of general math understanding. Position words are related to sequence, like numbers (before, after, between). These words are also related to shape and space, important concepts for geometry and other higher math understanding.
• Books like this are helpful in teaching prepositions to second language learners, for whom this construct of English grammar can be especially difficult.
• Speech pathologists will often target teaching these functional words (prepositions) as a priority when setting individual language goals for children who are having difficulty with this important language concept.
• Accomplished author/artist who does school visits in the Pacific Northwest.
• Lexile: AD100L, F&P level: D.