Number Train - by Jonathan Emmett (Board Book)

Book Synopsis

Good Housekeeping Kids' Book Award Winner!

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.

Learn the numbers, lift the flaps, and 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.

Review Quotes

While I am a staunch defender of the great historic librarian Anne Carroll Moore, there is one point upon which the two of us most certainly diverge. ACM had a distinct dislike of any book that fell too far over the line into what might be considered a "toy". Even board books (such as they were at the time) were not exempt from her disdain. One can only imagine how she would react to seeing something as downright enjoyable and playable as Number Train. It's kind of a jack-of-all-trades board book. First, it has wheels. Beautiful wheels that allow you to, when closed, make it ride all around (presumably while making choo-choo noises). Second, it is a "giant lift-the-flap concertina book" (something it declares proudly on its own cover). That means you can open it up and display it that way. It is ALSO a counting book! Those flaps you lift lead to alliterative descriptions of different animals partaking of various activities on the train on one side. On the other side all those same animals have gotten mixed up, and you have the choice of trying to find and count each one through the various train cars. Sometimes when a book says it can provide hours of fun it's stretching the truth a little. This book doesn't make that claim, but I think it could do so with impunity.--Betsy Bird, A Fuse #8 Production

"Sometimes when a book says it can provide hours of fun it's stretching the truth a little. This book doesn't make that claim, but I think it could do so with impunity."--Betsy Bird, A Fuse 8 Production

About the Author

Jonathan Emmett worked as an architect before becoming a children's author and novelty book designer. He likes building things and taking things apart, playing games and solving puzzles, and letting his imagination run riot.

Ingela P. Arrhenius has illustrated several picture books as well as other products for children. Her love of retro style, typography, and color is reflected in all of her work. Ingela lives with her husband and two sons in Stockholm, Sweden.