A counting book in rhyme presents various desert animals and their children, from a mother horned toad and her little toadie one to a mom tarantula and her little spiders ten. Numerals are hidden in each illustration.

Tiny Cat has an easy time counting balls of yarn until more and more appear, but Tiny Cat eventually gets just enough.

When happy-go-lucky Smiley Bone begins counting the birds he sees in the woods, the birds climb so high that Smiley must find a way to keep up with them.

A single starling is joined by hundreds more, and together they dance across the sky, finally settling into the trees.

In the Monkey Day Parade, monkey majorettes, cyclists, tumblers, and band members create a spectacle as they move along in groups of two, three, and four.

Introduces counting by fives by counting the number of spots on the shell of a ladybug. Readers are invited to find hidden numbers on an illustrated activity page.

An acrobatic act begins with one bear on a unicycle and ends with twenty-one bears and sixteen wheels flying through the air.