Ouch! I Need a Plaster!

This is an absolute winner. You wouldn’t think that there could be anything new in a counting book, but you’d be wrong. Here we count plasters. Nurse Ness has got ten in her case. There’s one for Greg, who’s cut his leg. And one for Rose who’s bashed her nose. We see Greg with a plaster on his leg, and at the top of the page a picture of just nine plasters. So it’s a book about ‘one less’, starting from ten. And what lovely plasters! All stripy and spotty. As we go through the book, each child has an injury, but they smile as they show their smart plaster. Can you imagine how children sharing the book with you will talk about their own injuries? On each page, the number of plasters is reduced by one. On the last page, Nurse Ness has one plaster left for you, the reader. The children are delightfully multicultural, and the rhymes catching.