Kindle Edition Download to your Nook (eBook) Download from Smashwords (eBook) Amazon Amazon Amazon Barnes and Noble Category:  Children Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN-10:  1497404584 Type: Fiction Pages: 44 Copyright: May 26, 2015 ISBN-13: 9781497404588 Price: $2.99 (eBook) Ten zany birds have a tree party, until one by one they find other things to do. It's a zany countdown - which bird will stick around? When ten little birds get together, it's a feathered festival! The party would last forever, if none of the ten friends were so easily distracted. One is frightened by a loud plane. One gets hungry. One wants to race and another needs a bath. Only one stays to sing in the tree, but who will it be? Ten Zany Birds is a fun, beautifully illustrated picture book. As parents and teachers read, children are introduced to counting and basic subtraction skills. Whenever a bird leaves, the number of striped, spotted, and polka-dotted birds changes, teaching the application of simple classification rules. Whimsical and entertaining, Sherry Ellis's tale of ten silly, distractible little birds is an excellent choice for both pre-reader storybook time and early readers.                Excerpt Ten zany birds, singing in a tree, dance at a party, happy as can be. Five with stripes, four with spots, one with purple polka dots.

5 Star Amazon Review from Grady Harp, Author
-The story is fun with its repeated rhythms, verses, and colorful intrusions to the zany bird party. The illustrations are superb, and the wonderful aspect for children (well, one of the wonderful aspects!) is the fact that by reading the story they have learned mathematics. Excellent on every level.

5 Star Amazon review from Diana Jenkins, Author
- Not only does it help kids understand counting, it also teaches them about simple subtraction, colors, and classifying. With its rhyming patterns and predictable story structure, Ten Zany Birds is a fun read-aloud for pre-readers and a great read-along for beginning readers.

5 Star Amazon Review from Medeia Sharif, Author
-The story is cute and the amazing illustrations are vibrant. I can see children and their parents picking this up repeatedly for a reread.