The kids in Mall Mania are in charge of counting the people who come through the doors. This adventurous book gets kids involved and helps build number and counting sense.

It was surprising when I found out it was a book about math, to be exact, about addition. I just grabbed it from the new books' cart, thinking it would be nice to teach the 2 year old about malls. Surprise! It ended up well with the 6 year old who is a math maniac. He did not show much interest with the different method of addition, but we enjoyed playing one of the games suggested at the end of the book. Good concept. Like the illustration too. ( )

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