A counting book that opens showing a bat with one baby features a variety of baby animals as it counts by ones up to ten (two baby lambs, three leopard cubs, four wild dog pups, through ten potbelly piglets) before jumping to 15 turkey poults, 20 caterpillars, 25 tadpoles, and then a multitude of spiderlings. The patterned, brief text engages young children by introducing each animal's number of babies ("This owl has" ...), and a rhyming description ("five owlets / Huddled together, warm in cold weather"). It then asks "Who has more babies than that?" A beautifully elaborate book design uses intricate die-cut, lift-the-flap pages to reveal the babies after introducing each mother. As an added treat, there's a search-and-find feature for readers to go back and track down some of those spiderlings on each double-page spread. (Ages 2-4)

A Telegraph Best Children's Book of 2020A rich and beautiful counting book full of gorgeous baby animals, with shaped pages, flaps and fold-outs from the UK's favourite author Julia Donaldson and award-winning illustrator Sharon King-Chai.From a leopard with her cubs, to a frog and its tadpoles, young readers will delight in counting each creature's babies and seeing where they live. With rhyming text and a surprise search-and-find game, this is a read-aloud delight and an absolute must for the family bookshelf. A truly beautiful gift, and the perfect companion book to Animalphabet."[Counting Creatures is] engaging, rewarding, and utterly delightful." - Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW