Goodnight, Numbers (McKellar Math)

Bought this for my daughter who is expecting her first baby soon. As an engineer, I don't want my grandkids to fear numbers and this is a good way to start. (My daughter was thrilled with it, BTW.)

Lovely book, perfect if you have a number crazy child like I do.

Amazing book to get little ones ok to maths

Well written book. Pictures are great. I like the association of numbers to things around you. My granddaughter (age 19 mos) loves it.

Goodnight Numbers is a board book for young readers by actor, mathematician and author, Danica McKellar. The charming illustrations are by Alicia Padron. The book takes the reader through the natural evening progression: finishing the evening meal, cleaning up afterwards, tidying away toys, getting ready for the bath, bathing, putting on nightwear, brushing teeth, bedtime story, getting settled in bed and going to sleep. As the pages are turned, the numbers from One to Ten feature prominently, in numbers, in letters and in objects that are there for the counting. A sweet and gentle winding down for the night with great educational value. Delightful!

Didn’t realise it was a board book

Not what I was expecting- should have read the reviews first. Minimalist style

Great book, very simple approach to learning numbers- counting things in the room on each page, repeating the number several times and giving you many objects in every picture to count for each number. Cute, fun drawings on each page and overall a sweet, well-written introduction to the numbers our little girl sees every day. A great book for bedtime.

I bought this book after hearing about it on a podcast. My son loves this book and isn’t even at the point where he can count yet. There is so much to look at on each page and I appreciate the diversity of the different families shown on each page. It’s also very clever how each page contains the correct number of items to count (Eg - page for number four has sets of 4 objects hidden around the page)

I bought this book because I wanted more options for my son's bedtime routine than the two books we had (it backfired because instead of it giving him options, he just makes me read all 3). I really only chose this particular book because I'm a Hallmark fan and had no idea Dannika McKellar was a math whiz or writer. But I'm so glad I took the chance! It quickly became one of my son's favorites due to the cute illustrations and easy rhymes. The careful attention to detail in the illustrations is impressive. The rhymes focus on counting certain things, but my son quickly noticed other items in the pages that were the same number (I.e. 5 rubber duckies on the bath page though the rhymes for five don't mention them). So it heped reinforce early counting and also helped with weird recognition since the numbers are written numerically and as words on each page. My son learned why it was there and started saying "number one and word one", etc. I've had to get creative to add a few rhymes of my own to include the extras he's found and it's so much fun. My son has easily memorized the book and can recite 99% back to me. It's a sturdy board book that is holding up to the abuse of a toddler well. It is priced very reasonably and is the perfect length to keep the attention of my energetic boy. I highly recommend this.

This book is so lovely. My three year old granddaughter loved it. She caught on immediately to the "6" also meaning "six"!

My toddler loves this book and asks for it every night. He also loves that there is a Sesame Street video of Elmo being read to. He learned number recognition to 10 by 14 months because of this book.