A numbers book to spark a young child's imagination.
An inspired way for reader aged 3-6 to think about time, numbers, and the world around us, using gorgeous and wistful watercolor illustrations. From the international children’s book award winning author of The Duel.
Count Me In! is a unique and uniquely beautiful book of numbers that is full of wonder. Here, the counting starts out very specific (one egg; two ears), then opens into more abstract and poetic quantities of things (so many bubbles; a field of crickets) to inspire a young reader's questions and imagination. How do you count a horse's gallops or many breezes? On some pages the reader can point and count. At other times the illustrations challenge the reader to imagine what isn't visible.
Inspired by her own baby’s first year, Viegas Oliveira shows children and their adults the discovery of a world as it is—sometimes with many crashes of lightning and skinned knees, but also with candles on a birthday cake and the safety of home—all the while seeing the fullness in everything.
Inês Viegas Oliveira was born in Tavira, Portugal, in 1995. She studied physics and math, before changing course and studying illustration. In 2020, 2022, and 2023 her work was selected for the Illustrators Exhibition of the Bologna Children's Book Fair. After participating in the Every Story Matters European project that promotes inclusion through stories and books, she wrote and illustrated her first book, The Duel (O Duelo), published in Portugal in 2022 by Planeta Tangerina, which went on to win Portugal’s 2023 National Illustration Award. It was also selected for dPictus’s 100 Outstanding Picture Books and was featured at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair's 2023 BRAW Amazing Bookshelf.
