Ten Apples Up On Top! Beginner Books R :: Education by Design Store

Customer Reviews

Gosh I love this book!

2008-08-03
Three animals compete in the first half of the book to see who can have the most apples on top of their head. During the second half of the book, they escape an angry mob, happily collide with an apple truck, and end up giving the entire town ten apples on their heads as well. (What fun! Ten apples up on top! We are not going to let them drop!)

This is a good book both for early readers, and for young children learning to talk. Very simple, rhyming vocabulary, of the sort with intuitive spellings (so much of English orthography is a mess...!)

Please note that I do not recommend the board book version at all. They cut out the entire second half of the book, as well as good parts of the first half. In addition, the board book is poorly constructed. Just wait and get the real version instead.

Fun for kids. Tedious for adults

2008-03-10
Review by Sherry North, Author, Because You Are My Baby

Ten Apples Up on Top is a good introduction to counting and addition for preschoolers. My 3-year-old loves it. He counts the apples on every page and never gets bored. Me, on the other hand - I would have liked the book to have more of a storyline.

Great book!

2008-01-29
Apparently this story is HILARIOUS. My 7 month old son completely cracks up every time I read it to him.

Excellent sight word book

2007-01-15
This book is unbelievably good for early readers. My son started reading right after he turned 4. The book is written using about 85 basic words that all kids need to learn (sight words). Once they know these words they can read a lot of other books. The value in Ten Apples is NOT the illustrations, counting or the story. Put simply, it is a wonderful tool to get your child reading. My son (4 yrs and 3 months) can read this book to himself easily. Those 85 words help him read all other books that he wants to. Those looking for a good book to practice sight words must buy this book.

Ten Apples

2007-01-15
This is an excellent beginning reader. It provides practicing counting and even though it follows a predictable sequence, it is fun to see what will happen next.

Mikey Mazzulo

2006-11-09
Illus. in color. A beginning Beginner Book, this ingenious story uses a vocabulary of only 75 different words. "A hilarious story in rhyme about a number of animals who could carry 10 apples on their heads."--Elementary English.

Board book is far off from description Amazon uses (hardcover)

2006-08-22
I remember liking this book as a child and I thought I could get this book for my daughter. The board book has been so abridged that it lacks a lot of things that I thought were funny. AND what about that "climatic ending" where the apples all topple - Not there! I wouldn't even recognize the wording in the board book as Dr. Suess's.

Not a great fan of this one, just not really appealing

2006-06-13
One of the books which I keep wondering why I don't really like it. But there are lots of small reasons, none of them major but they all add up.

Firstly, the illustrations, while simple are dull, there is only black red and I think yellow or brown. It just doesn't bring things to life

Secondly, the story seems pointless - animals putting apples on their heads. I am probably missing the point as my children enjoy the story - but as a nonsense rhyme it doesn't appeal to me

Thirdly, while there is counting, I don't get a sense of drama out of it which I think they are trying to imbue to get you counting the apples.

This could have been better in a number of ways, but I will pretty much hope my children pick something else to read. There is little to appeal to adults in this one. (which is important I think for a children's book, after all, it is usually the adult who reads it to them at this age.)

Generations of happiness.

2006-03-11
I had the original Beginner book and I read it so much it fell apart and my girls read it only a few times. They loved it as much as I so, I had to replace it. Well worth it. My daughters insist on it every day.

Teach Your Toddler to Count and Read

2005-09-22
This is a great book for a toddler. Very simple words, and counting too. There are a couple pages where the animals each have different numbers of apples on their heads, and I always stop my two-year-old and ask him to count the apples on each of them. He also likes to identify each of the animals: dog, lion, tiger, bear.

He is also learning to read with this book. He can read words like "top" and "ten" and "apples." He really surprised me though by memorizing some of the text, so that on every page he knows the first couple words! "Look, see!" "Look out!" "Come on!"

I loved this book as a kid, and yours will too. I guess the board book is not the full book, so I would get the paper-paged book once your child is old enough to not tear it apart.