This book could definitely be considered to be an alphabet/counting genre book. After our presentation last week and reading this book for this week, I found a lot of similarities. It was about counting to ten. The potatoes are introduced by pairs "one potato, two potato, etc." on each page and it was very rhythmic for instance, "three potato, four potato, tic-tac-toe!" I didn't really like the book. It didn't really have a story line and it was hard to understand. It didn't have a clear purpose to me, besides counting, so it was definitely for a younger audience. I thought it was cool how the potatoes were all different shapes and colors and you could tell the author was going for some diversity because even potatoes can be diverse I guess. The illustrations used the whole pages, some were even drawn so the reader had to turn the book vertically to see the pictures. In each picture there was also a little ant that was hidden and a different insect somewhere in the picture also. All the words were in dialogue bubbles coming out of the potatoes mouths but the dialogue wasn't between the potatoes, it was more directed to an audience, which I thought was kind of weird. I don't think I would recommend this book for reading to a class but it would be a good book for individual reading because there are a lot of little details that the reader can look for and the words are very simple. I didn't get a lot of educational value out of it and there wouldn't be much to discuss to a class.
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