06. Ten little fingers and ten little toes

Fox, Mem & Oxenbury, Helen (illustrator). Ten little fingers and ten little toes. Orlando : Harcourt, c2008.

  Title:  Ten little fingers and ten little toes
  Author:  Mem Fox
  Publisher:  Harcourt
  Year of publish: c2008
  Audience: Aged 3-6
  Subject: Different and similar things

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It is an Australian fiction won Australian Book Industry Award for book of the year for younger children (2009). Indies choice book award nominee for best new picture book - Honor book (2009). It is about babies were born in different places, they are in different appearances and ethnic clothes with ten fingers and ten toes. The illustrations are in clear and soft water colour. The texts are simple, in rhythm and sweet tone. The combination of these deliver a clear concept of every babies are all the same with ten toes and ten fingers, no matter where you were born and what you are appearing. It teaches children respect each other.