Number Train

By Author / Illustrator

Jonathan Emmett, Ingela P Arrhenius, Kristin Atherton

Genre

Early Skills

Publisher

Nosy Crow

ISBN

9781839946400

Format

Board book

Published

01-08-2024

Synopsis

All aboard the Number Train in this lift-the-flap rhyming counting book with six spinning wheels! Count from one to ten in this vibrant lift-the-flap concertina book! Who is munching on a snack? Who is taking a quick nap? And who's that making lots of noise? Find out in this train-shaped gift book, from the creative duo behind Alphabet Street and Christmas Street.

Learn the numbers, lift the flaps, enjoy the rhyming text and animal scenes inside each carriage before flipping the book to play the fun counting game on the reverse. Then push the train-shaped book along on its six moving wheels!

With bright, cheerful artwork from Ingela P Arrhenius, illustrator of the bestselling Felt Flaps and Peekaboo series, and a clever rhyming text from Jonathan Emmett. Scan the Stories Aloud QR code on the back cover to read along with the story!

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Reviews

Jessica

Number Train has fast become my favourite board book of all time! It is so cleverly made and so invitingly presented – and quite possibly the most interactive board book I've ever come across! The book arrives with a sleeve that goes over the top of it. This is to keep the pages of the book together so children can have fun moving it along as if it were a toy train. Just as you think it can't get any better… the wheels actually move around too! This is extremely exciting for little ones and makes the uses of this book so varied!

When your toddler eventually allows you to take off the sleeve and open the book, they’ll uncover even more fun to be had. The entire book folds out to make a train with ten carriages. This is now a huge train for our little ones to move across the floor.

Each carriage is devoted to teaching our little ones about a particular number from 1 to 10 with the aid of a comical 'lift the flap' element which represents that number with the most unusual passengers on the train. For example, we meet three 'eager elephants' and four 'posing poodles' - there is oodles of fun to be had! Just to add yet another dimension to this innovative board book, it can also be kept as a book with turning pages.

The diverse uses of this book make it the most perfect present for a toddler or a perfect companion on a trip away as it will keep your toddler engaged for long periods of time. I cannot express my love of this book enough - I've already bought copies for my soon-to-be-parent friends!