2016 is my fifth year of writing a poem a day. She belongs to the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, and Writers Forum of Redding CA. Highly recommended! The pictures, though simple, are delightful.Īuthor/illustrator/storyteller/recovering-teacher/poet, Linda Boyden has written six and illustrated five picture books, The Blue Roses, Powwow’s Coming, Giveaways: An ABC Book of Loanwords from the Americas, Boy and Poi Poi Puppy, Roxy Reindeer, and Boy and Poi Poi Puppy in Doggone! She has had many poems published in various literary journals. It’s a great way to teach numbers….as well as how to navigate the politics of playground and group dynamics for your little ones. Ultimately, Two takes the others to task and reminds us all that people don’t have to be exactly the same to be friends and that it’s okay to have more than one friend at a time. Then all the other numbers take sides and Odds stack up against Even in a battle that anybody can recognize as an “us v. Two feels left out as One and Three play the exclusive friend card, despite the fact that One and Two used to be friends. In Two, One and Two are friends…until Three jumps in between. When you think of counting books, what do you think of? For the most part, a pretty basic book, right? Something that teaches kids about numbers, or a number, and tries to make it fun, but doesn’t, at the same time, explore human nature on a particularly deep level? Well, sit back, crack open Two by Kathryn Otoshi, and see for yourself exactly how one creative author/illustrator takes numbers to a whole new level.

Zero by Kathryn Otoshi