"A Pop-Up Book from the bestselling creators of
365 Penguins."
Written by Jean-Luc Fromental and illustrated by Joelle Jolivet.
Fromental is a French screenwriter, author, and publisher. Beginning her illustration career in the late 80s, she began to team with Fromental in the mid 2000's. Together the team has produced several popular and famous children's books about penguins and more.
Genre: Fiction
Theme: Animals/Numbers
Ages: 4 - 7
Summary: This pop up book is also interactive with arrows to pull and penguins to count. Starting at 10 and working the way down to 0, the penguins are all having mischievousness fun until one by one they all leave in unique ways.
Pre-Reading Activity: Ask for 10 students to line up in front of classmates one by one, have remaining students count out loud how many they have. Repeat the process asking students to leave the line to join their peers. Have class count down from 10 to 0. Instruct the class that the skill of counting downward from 10 will be very helpful in reading this story.
Post-Reading Activity: Have students make their own 10 little (insert animal here) book following the pattern. The initial assignment would be to create their own title and cover page for the book. For adaptation or to create full length book students may begin at the number 5 and work their way down.
Reflection: This book is the kind that the reader wants to get up very closely to and play with. Students will want to count each penguin with their fingers. I really enjoy that this book can be used to talk about art, math, animals, habitat and even the importance of how to care for books. 
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