This colorful book, now in board book format, combines simple counting instruction with humor, repetition and rhythm to encourage learning fun. He now works mainly for children's publishers, illustrating, designing and writing children's books. He then worked for many years in London for a wide range of clients, including magazines, design groups and advertising firms. The only slightly disappointing thing about this book was that it was not hardback but was a slightly more robust soft back. A busy farmer picks up fifteen animals along his route, but when his trailer hits a stone, chaos ensues.

The illustrations are also nice and we played 'where are the rabbits' for a while as there are rabbits hidden. David Sim studied at the Royal College of Art and has worked as an illustrator for many years creating many children's books.I have used this book as an entire maths topic and the children made a great display of the animals in the trailer along with the relevant numerals. The accompanying CD means that the children learn the song quickly and easily whilst also learning to count.

You get both a 'karaoke' version and full song version, which means you can listen to the original song then sing along. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.He studied graphic design at the Edinburgh College of Art in the UK, and then he studied illustration at the Royal College of Art, London. Jan Dobbins is a well-known music educator and composer who mentors music teachers from all over the world.