Product Description

A lion, a dog, and a tiger are having a contest--can they get ten apples

piled up on top of their heads? You better believe it! This first counting book

works as a teaching tool as well as a funny story.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17002 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09-08
• Released on: 1998-09-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Board book
• 24 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780679892472
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Amazon.com Review
Since 1961, Ten Apples up on Top has been helping preschoolers learn to count and read simultaneously. Simple illustrations and even simpler rhymes make this apple-balancing competition between a dog, a tiger, and a lion a fun, easy place to practice sight words and phonics. Siblings can even take turns reading phrases like "Seven apples up on top. I am so good they will not drop." The inevitable tumbling crash is a great climax for busy toddlers to enjoy, and parents will appreciate the cooperative lesson the last page offers. (Preschool to early reader) --Jill Lightner

From the Inside Flap
A lion, a dog, and a tiger are having a contest--can they get ten apples piled up on top of their heads? You better believe it! This first counting book works as a teaching tool as well as a funny story.  

About the Author
Dr. Seuss was born Theodore Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2,

1904. After attending Dartmouth College and Oxford University, he began a

career in advertising. His advertising cartoons, featuring Quick, Henry, the

Flit!, appeared in several leading American magazines.


Dr. Seusss first children's book, And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street hit

the market in 1937, and the world of children's literature was changed

forever!


In 1957, Seuss's The Cat in the Hat became the prototype for one of Random

House's best- selling series, Beginner Books. This popular series combined

engaging stories with outrageous illustrations and playful sounds to teach

basic reading skills.


Brilliant, playful, and always respectful of children, Dr. Seuss charmed his

way into the consciousness of four generations of youngsters and parents. In

the process, he helped kids learn to read.


Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and two Academy Awards, Seuss was the

author and illustrator of 44 childrens books, some of which have been made into

audiocassettes, animated television specials, and videos for children of all

ages. Even after his death in 1991, Dr. Seuss continues to be the best-selling

author of children's books in the world.

Customer Reviews

One-Ups-Creatureship Balancing Act to Help with Counting!
This book is a tour de force for helping with reading and counting to ten, using a vocabulary of only 75 words! A lion, dog, and tiger find many interesting ways to balance ten apples vertically on their heads, building up from only one. Then the birds decide they would like the apples, and the fun really begins. The conclusion will leave your child giggling happily.

Most simple books try to teach only counting or reading. I found it to be a great idea to combine the two. It makes the task both easier and more interesting for your child.

By using only 75 words, there is much repetition to help your youngster identify words that she or he will reuse throughout life. Here is an example:

"One apple up on top!

Two apples up on top!"

The illustrations nicely cue the young person to the words and the numbers involved. With these words I have quoted, you see the lion with the requisite number of apples balanced on top of the head.

The illustrations are also very active, and help draw interest to the story. Mr. Roy McKie's colorful, dynamic illustrations bring the story to life. Otherwise, how interesting can a counting book be?

Most children will have no trouble memorizing this story. Then, they can "read" along as you read aloud. Later, you can stop for certain words that they know how to identify, and they can read that word as part of the sentence you are reading aloud. You can also encourage them to count the number of apples aloud on each creature's head.

You can extend the value of this book by adding some pages of your own that involve numbers beyond ten. Your child will enjoy helping your with the illustrations for those pages. With the simple text structure, you cannot help but match what Dr. Seuss would have written (writing here under his pen name of Theo. Le Sieg -- the reverse of his real last name).

As an adult, I also encourage you to consider creating other books for your children to learn from. You could take this same structure, and introduce other nouns as well. Beyond that, you could also use this structure (with tiny amendments) to teach new verbs. By adding only a few dozen words, you can greatly expand your child's ability to enjoy stories!

Keep it simple, and everything can be understood!

Board book is far off from description Amazon uses (hardcover)
I remember liking this book as a child and I thought I could get this book for my daughter. The board book has been so abridged that it lacks a lot of things that I thought were funny. AND what about that "climatic ending" where the apples all topple - Not there! I wouldn't even recognize the wording in the board book as Dr. Suess's.

Surprise: Board Book Not the Full Version!?
My son loved the "Ten Apples Up On Top" (Hardcover) book I borrowed for him from the library so much that I ordered a copy of our own. Thinking that the board book would be more sturdy, that's what I ordered. Never imagined that the board book could be only less than half of the full version, you can imagine the surprise and disappointement we had when we sat down to read it together. Now I know to compare the number of pages when I order. I wish there were some kind of clearer indication and warning about Board book version not being the full version somewhere in the Product Description.