Bursting with holiday cheer, each spread of this charming primer invites toddlers to find and count objects hidden in festive scenes of Christmas fun. Christmas is coming! Toddlers learn to count down from 10 by finding objects hidden throughout these charming scenes of holiday fun rendered in illustrator Greg Paprocki’s classically retro midcentury art style. From decorating cookies and caroling to hanging ornaments and reading favorite stories, there’s Christmas fun on every page. The final spread is packed with surprises! Discover new details in each illustration with every successive reading. Toddler-PreS-Christmas is here, and festively bright decorations fill homes and communities. The art of counting meets the always delightful search-and-find quest in this sure to be to popular book for little ones. Open the book to find a spread of retro-inspired illustrations showing a family at home or people within a community surrounded by all things Christmas. Each page sends readers on a quest to find a certain number of a specific Christmas items as they count down the 10 days until Christmas. "7 days until Christmas and we decorate gingerbread houses. Can you find 7 green gum drops?" Adults and toddlers will enjoy the seek-and-point actions while counting aloud as they find each item. Vibrant illustrations and promotion of vital early literacy skills using the love of a holiday make this a perfect gift for a young child. VERDICT Recommended for general purchase in a picture/board book collection in a public library; or in an early childhood educational setting as item recognition, vocabulary acquisition, and counting are all brought together in one charming book.-Kristen Todd-Wurmα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. Bursting with holiday cheer, each spread of this charming primer invites toddlers to find and count objects hidden in festive scenes of Christmas fun. Greg Paprocki works full-time as an illustrator and book designer. He has illustrated several Curious George books, the Little Leonardo series, and the BabyLit alphabet board books including S Is for Santa , B Is for Boo , E Is for Easter , and T Is for Thankful . Titles in the Count and Find series include Day of the Dead , Christmas , and Trees . Greg’s Gibbs Smith titles have sold over 581,952 copies. He lives in Omaha, NE.