Count for Me

Camels, elephants, cheetahs and a menagerie of Ethiopian animals help emerging young readers learn to count in this charming bilingual primer in indigenous Ethiopian languages like Amharic, Tigrinya and Afaan Oromo. Charming student illustrations depict the animals, birds and spiders of West Africa in colorful detail. Side by side translations in Amharic and English support development of vocabulary and fluency. Bright, colorful illustrations of lions and monkeys and donkeys keep their interest.

Count For Me is one our early #ReadySetGo titles written by author Caroline Kurtz. Camels, elephants, cheetahs and a menagerie of animals help emerging readers learn to count. Illustrations and colorful borders created by 3rd graders from Findley School in Beaverton, Oregon, depict the animals, birds and spiders of West Africa in colorful detail. The students came up with the idea that the animals of Ethiopia could count dots.