Count Down to Clean Up!

Title- Count Down to Clean Up!
Author- Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
Publisher- Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2001
Illustrator- Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
Genre- Easy Children's Book
Readability Lexile-3-8

Summary and target audience- This book goes through a countdown of days until the big clean up. Each page represents a number and there are corresponding pictures to represent each number. The taregt audience would be childreb just learning how to count.

Evaluation of Literature- This book is enjoyable and helps children cuont backwards from ten. It is simple yet to the point. I think it would be a good teaching devise.

Literary Elements- This book uses a lot of personification in it. It has rabbits counting, walking, talking etc.

Illustrations- This book and it's illustrations are key to the progression of the story. With out them the story wouldn't make any sense.

Mini-lesson- I would use this book to help teach my children how to count backwards from ten.