More or Lessby Bettina Takacs

More or Less
Content Consultant Bettina Takacs

Design by Keith Plechaty

This handy sized board book teaches a toddler about the concepts of “more” and “less.”  Each page has colorful photos of objects that would be familiar to a toddler.  On one side of the page it shows the item that is “more”.  An example from the book is a photograph of four balls.  The caption reads “Four is more than two.”  On the corresponding page is a photo of two balls.  The caption on that page reads “Two is less than four.”  The book continues in this pattern with photographs of kittens, cookies, blocks, and pumpkins.  The conclusion page has miniature photos of the entire book and a question at the bottom of the page.  The question is:  “What is more?”  “What is less?”  The child is encouraged to point to the various photos.  The back page gives parents and caregivers an idea of how to play the “more and less” game in a toddlers daily life.  Ideas include meal time and play time and stacks of objects symbolizing more and less. This is a board book which makes it easy for toddlers to grip and turn pages while the story line is detailed enough to intrigue preschool children.  The story is cleverly designed to entertain and inform at the same time.

I received this book free from the publishers in exchange for my honest review.