Five new counting books all share one essential strategy: to start a conversation. By Amy Alznauer A counting book is tricky to write, for it must inspire readers to do two things at once: to ...

Sequential counting books are more common than sequential alphabet books, because it's much easier to deal with numbers in sequence than with the 26 letters in our alphabet.

LEILA FADEL, HOST: A new book by Maurice Sendak came out this week. "Ten Little Rabbits" helps young children learn how to count using whimsical images. Sendak died in 2012, and he didn't have any ...