Diez Deditos De Las Manos Y Diez Deditos De Los Pies / Ten Little Fingers And Ten Little Toes Bilingual Board Book (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury team up in Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes to detail the plain truth that every baby across the world, despite their differences, all possess ten fingers and ten toes. The book seeks to reveal that even though babies and therefore people look different, we are all human with similar qualities. Fox and Oxenbury also show our differences as humans in relation to the environment we grew up in, but that in the end we all can have similar experiences. With mainly a white backdrop, Oxenbury’s illustrations are simple yet prove to be just enough. Varying ethnicities amongst the babies is highlighted with the simple white background and rhythmic, repeated text. The book is a great way to depict different ethnicities to young children and highlight the simple similarities amongst us all, that we are all human regardless of the color of our skin. It is a good bedtime story for very young readers, but could be brought back for slightly older students when beginning to teach about cultural diversity.Fox, M., & Oxenbury, H. (2008). Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing. Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox is a cute book that young children are sure to enjoy! Parents too! The book goes through a series of children, discussing the numbers of fingers and toes they have. The silly repetition and rhyming features are sure to make the young children laugh while enjoying this book. Another key concept of this book that I personally enjoyed was the use of diversity. The illustrations represented babies of many cultural backgrounds, which is fantastic! I loved the book and believed it offered a valuable learning experience for even the youngest learners, while also being enjoyable. If I were to use this in a classroom, I would use it as a counting book. I would make the read-aloud educational by interacting with my students in order to count the fingers and the toes together. It is a great book that parents and early childhood teachers should consider!
What do You think about Diez Deditos De Las Manos Y Diez Deditos De Los Pies / Ten Little Fingers And Ten Little Toes Bilingual Board Book (2012)?
Cute for new moms, moms-to-be, parents, anyone that likes babies.
—SammyLamb
April 2014. Two and four (ages). Loved it.
—mayflower
Love this book! Great for toddlers!
—brigidarodrigues
