Central Kansas Library System

Each car on the train has one more zoo animal than the one before, from the first car with an elephant to the last with ten birds.

A brand-new batch of rubber ducks is loaded onto a ship and sent off to be delivered to children everywhere. But when a storm strikes, 10 little ducks are tossed into the sea and swept away in 10 different directions -- with some wonderfully unexpected adventures along the way. Come ride the waves as legendary children's book author and illustrator Eric Carle explores numbers, directions, opposites, geography, animals, and more in an extraordinary...

A simple introduction to the meaning of numbers and sets as a rooster, on his way to see the world, is joined by fourteen animals along the way.

Counting by twos and eight colors are introduced as the painters create a rainbow cat. On board pages with die-cut holes.