How to Count (No.61)
Book Details...
First edition: 1930
Publisher: Birn Brothers
Illustrator: Uncredited
Category: Birn Hidden Wheel Verse Books
Genre: Learning
Type: Poetry and Song Books
Publisher: Birn Brothers
Illustrator: Uncredited
Category: Birn Hidden Wheel Verse Books
Genre: Learning
Type: Poetry and Song Books
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Now... to cement everything into the little mind, Enid Blyton takes the child backwards. The Dog goes out to howl at the moon so there are Six. Next day the remaining characters peep at some hives of bees and one chases the Raven away so that's let me see now... Six? No, Five! The next page shows them in a row-boat with a fairly healthy depiction of the White Cliffs of Dover in the background. The Duck falls out of the boat which I suppose doesn't really matter to such a creature and in the next thrilling adventure — Tibby the Cat runs off to chase a mouse. The Bunny, the Chick and the fat little Pig go to fly kites and very unfortunately the strong wind blows the Bunny "...right up in the sky." Two left! There is now a gruesome death in the family — "The Pig and the Chick yawned a very big yawn and both went to sleep in the sun, which melted the poor little chick away, and then of course there was One!"
Curtain!
The whole book from a scarce book that has never been reprinted.