- This entertaining collection of rhymes explores counting backwards, counting in twos, and counting numbers beyond 10. From "Five Little Monkeys" and "Ten in a Bed" to "One, two, buckle my shoe" and "One hundred bees round a hive", these rhymes provide a rich range of enjoyable opportunities to familiarise children with ways of manipulating numbers. An introduction, "Cracking the Code", discusses ways of learning to count and use numbers beyond 10 - tens and teens - thus providing a useful help for adults. Collected by a highly reputable early years educationalist with the clear aim of developing early number skills, these rhymes are vividly illustrated by an exciting new talent in children"s picture books. This is a book that no foundation stage class should be with out.