MY KIDS ADORED THIS BOOK, AFTER ABOUT THREE READINGS THEY HAD MEMORIZED THE RHYMES AND WERE NOT AT ALL BORED BY COUNTING TO 20.WE WORE OUT THE LIBRARY'S COPY AND ORDERED OUR OWN. I LEARNED A BIT ABOUT BASEBALL AS WELL. NOT THE USUAL DULL COUNT OF CRITTERS OR OBJECTS, THIS BOOK TELLS A STORY BETWEEN THE RHYMES.

I loved this picture counting book because it uses the numbers from one to twenty to introduce various aspects of the game of baseball,with full-color realistic paintings. Children who love the game would love this book. It would be great to use for storytelling or for a math or sports unit in the classroom.

M&M's are always fun...the kids seem to love these charicter....Adult love to eat them...This book is fun!

This is about the best book I have ever bought for my son. He is only 19 months old and already knows his numbers to 5. I recommend this to all parents and teachers!

Here is a great way to teach counting wothout providing extra sugary snacks to children. The Pepperidge Farm company makes a variety of goldfish that can be used with this book to entice children to learn to count from 1 to 10. Have fun eating the counters at the end of the book!

My six year old daughter has been struggling with subtraction
facts. She can do any word problem, but the facts just made no
sense to her. I have used concrete objects as well as several
"math books" to help her make sense of it all, but with no
results. Then I thought of buying this book. That's all that it took! My child is no longer frustrated and confused about the
meaning of subtraction. Best of all, she likes math now, and yes,
eating the m&m's was a surprise bonus. As a fifth grade teacher
and mom of a first grader, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book to any
teacher or parent who simply wants to do fun activities with math. It's especially helpful to children who can't quite grasp
the concept of simple subtraction. I think the author should have
included some "counting back" facts after she introduced the first fact (12-1). It would've been so easy and sensible to go
ahead with (12-2), (12-3),etc. My daughter and I did a few count
back facts at this point in the book, and it made sense to her.
This is the reason for my rating of 4 stars.

This is a great book to use for practicing and learning counting, addition, subtraction, colors, and shapes. Also aids in the development of phonological awareness by using rhyme and rhythm. As a teacher you can do a number of lessons from basic counting and colors to more advanced sets, ratios, and fractions. Best of all, your students will love making them disappear.

I homeschool my two older children and wanted a book that I could use with my 4-year old just for fun. When we set down to our 'homeschool time' she had a blast. We sorted the M&M's by color, counted so many of each color, learned simple addition and shapes. The best part came at the end of the book where we learned subtraction and ate the M&M's. My daughter's eyes got very big and she asked, "You mean REALLY eat them?"

I recommend this book to parents of home schooled children and elementary teachers. It is very similar to the AIMS M&M activities that many of us educators have used. The following skills are addressed: sorting by color, bar graphing by color,
addition, subtraction, multiplication using arrays ( 4 rows of 10),and division. A word of caution: the division is extremely
simple-- dividing your candy into two equal groups ("fair shares"). Don't buy the book if you're looking for something to help you teach the division process; you'll be disappointed.
The author does a much better job with her presentation of multiplication, and she includes ordinal numbers at the end of the book. I gave a rating of 4 stars because I think the author
could have included a few more concepts such as "square numbers."
Kids love those! Overall, this is a fun book that uses an
appealing, edible manipulative that kids who dislike math will
get excited about!

Ok, teachers have some fun with your kids. Go grab a bag ofM&M's for each student and get this book and you are set.

Ifyou read the M&M counting book, this is the next one to read to your class. This book is more advanced and covers estimation by having the students look at their M&M's and guess how many they have. Then, the book goes on to sorting by color and simple graphing of the different colors. After that, the book goes into factoring, multiplication, and division.

This book would be a fun review for a 2nd-4th grader. The book is colorful, fun, and a great treat!

It is very colorful, which catches the eye of younger children. And it makes reading & counting fun with an added treat.

We have the paperback version of this book. I never imagined that it was an actual "book"; I thought it was just a gimic book that the company sold through its cereal. Having said that, it's not a bad book.

First, the book counts from one to ten, with one number per page. Each page has the number, a picture of that number of Cheerios, a rhyming verse containing the number, and a picture of a different kind of fruit, also demonstrating the number. The rhymes are OK, but not quite natural. As we read each page, I like to count the number of Cheerios. In doing so it's hard to keep the rhyme going. Also, if we stop to notice (or count) the fruit, the rhyme tends to get lost.

Next, the book counts from eleven to twenty on two facing pages. There's lots of fruit to see here, too. The next two pages count to 100 by tens, with the second page having (what I assume to be) one hundred Cheerios on it. Zero is the number on the last page: it "is the number you get when you're done."

This last quote brings me to a likely picky point. The book uses contractions. For this reason, it probably won't serve double duty as an easy reader.

This is very cute. I think it is a great way to introduce children to counting by ones and counting by tens through manipulatives. And this comes from someone who doesn't like to buy into free advertising (in other words to have cheerio shoved down my child's eyes when I buy the book). But this is a great book.

Two thoughts- we have another cheerio book that has the place to put the cheerios as a little hole and my son likes that better. And, although the cover of this book lays flat, the pages do not. I had to put a little crease in the pages back by the spine so they would lay flat. This way my son's cheerios (or fakios) won't slip off the page.

Cute book though.

Enjoy.

My son loves food and this book is his first book that he will listen to and look at the pictures. He LOVES it!

Barbara McGrath has done lots of books like this--simple counting books using candy or some kind of food. This is OK but the illustrations aren't that good.