Ten Black Dots

I like the illustrations. They are simple and bold. The circles (dots) are solid black and don't change size, shape or color throughout the book.

this is a nice easy to read book. it starts off with one black dot and goes up with each flip of the page. one makes the sun and two can make the foxes eyes. very cute. the colors work well together and dont blend together, each is bright and different colored.

The reader can count all the way to ten and delight in the simple rhymes, everyday objects. This book is a good example of picture concept book. Full-color illustrations.

It was neat to see what you can do with just ten dots.

The story, "Ten Black Dots" is a math information book, which works on number recognition. The story shows pictures where they use dots for parts of the picture. For exaple, two dots are the eyes of a cat. The story does this for all the pictures and all of the numbers one through ten. One

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wonderful feature of the book is that it has the numbers written both numeral and word. For example, 1 or one. I feel as thought this was a very good book to use when practicing number recognition.

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Ten Black Dots is a minimalist rhyming counting book by Donald Crews. Bold graphics and text count one to ten by showing some of the many things that can be made be with ten dots. Clever rhymes will encourage children to remember and “read” again and again. This book is a natural to extend into

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a mathematics activity for children to create and count their own dot creatures or objects. The counting chart at the book’s end is an excellent tool for number symbol recognition. Ten Black Dots is required reading for budding mathematicians!

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A great counting book with bold colors and illustrations.

Very fun book about ten dots and how they are used to creat a picture. Good for beginning readers or to share with preschool or non reading children. For example, i liked the idea that 10 dots could be represented as ten balloons stuck in a tree, pennies in a piggy bank and stones turned up by a

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garden rake. The dark black dots can also help younger children learn how to count by placing their fingers over each dot to count up to ten!

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Ten Black Dots is a counting book that shows what you can do with ten black dots. It can be the sun or the moon, beads, knobs on a radio, or buttons on a coat. Then the book counts the dots from 1 to 10. The images in the book are simplistic so it is more about counting and using your imagination

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to create different things.
This book is a Counting Picture book.
I thought the book was a little simplistic but it is good to help children learn to count.
This is a good book for teaching young children counting. It also is a book about using your creativity to create something out of ten ordinary black dots. It would be great after you read this book to a child to ask them what they could create with ten black dots.

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It shows black dots creating many different pictures - eyes for a fox, wheels on a train, coins in a piggy bank; each page adds one more. Great for counting.

Counting to ten becomes interactive as readers are invited to count the large black dots incorporated into each illustration. Bold graphics with clean lines support this counting premise while the sparse rhymed text introduces readers to both numerals and number words. A diagram at the end of the

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book offers further counting practice. This book is recommended for children ages two to five, especially those children who are learning to count. It would be a fine addition to any preschool or kindergarten collection. While not originally published as a board book, it translates well into this format, as the durable chipboard holds up well against interactive engagement, though its smaller size may also make this board book work better for individual readers than for a classroom read-aloud.

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This book is so great for counting numbers. I love how on every page it shows what a certain amount of dots can make. Another great feature isthat the story rhymes as well. I loved this book.

Very good math book to learn about counting. Each page is counting up to ten with black dots in some kind of creative way. Love this book to help children learn how to count!

A fun counting to ten book for young children. Brightly colored pictures of different objects with dots make it more interesting for kids to count.

This book would be good for kinder. It intergrates literature with math. The whole theme of the story is ten dots that can do many things.

Ten Black Dots is an incredibly clever and imaginative counting book. The book's main conceit is that you can use 10 simple black dots and a little creativity to make various things. For instance, it starts with how one black dot can be the moon in a nightscape and works it way up to 10 black dots

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being balloons stuck in a tree. Of course, the illustrations show exactly how the black dots can be made into these objects, and each spread also rhymes, i.e., the spread for seven goes "Seven dots can the spots on a snake / or stones turned up by a garden rake." This book also lends itself to moving into an art project in which a parent or a teacher could work with their child(ren) to try their own hand at making things out of ten black dots.

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This was a cute counting book based off of ten. Each number up to ten had it’s own page with a way to represent it using black dots. This book used rhyming and represented numbers through pictures and different associations. Even though it was simple, this would be a great book to read to

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students who are struggling with number identities. By representing number values in various ways, it helps students to remember numbers and store them in long term memory. This book would be great for tactile learners because they can count the black dots on each page. Even if they cannot yet read, they can count the dots and associate that with the number printed on the page. Finally, this is also a great introduction to poetic devices due to the rhyming. For example, for the number eight, the book stated, “Eight dots can make the wheels of a train carrying freight through run and rain”, which was accompanied by a picture of a train. The purpose of this book was to help teach students how to count to ten.

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This is a fun way to tap into the imagination of young children. Each page is an opportunity for young children who are still working on number sense and basic counting to explore numbers in a fun way. The book builds, starting from 1 and counting on to 10. The illustrations are bright and the book

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is interactive as the reader is asked to count the dots that are used to make different scenes and objects. It is a great book for pre-K and Kinders still working on the concept of numbers.

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an easy way for children to recognize numbers with dots as represention of objects. Great book used for teaching children how many dot do you see here and what does it make.

This book represents counting with dots and how it makes them eye catchers to children to get involved and count along with the pictures from 1-10.
ages 3,4,5,6
pierce college library

Things that dots can make from a sun to balloons stuck in a tree.

hOW TEN DOTS ARE INVOLVED IN MAKING PICTURES

This book is all about the counting, from one to ten, and also there are different things shown for each number.

What can you do with ten black dots? One dot can make a sun, two dots can make the eyes of a fox, and three dots can make a snowman's face. And that's just the beginning!