Charlie & Lola: One Thing
Author: Lauren Child
Illustrator: Lauren Child
Publisher: Orchard
An outing to the shops provides Charlie and his little sister Lola with lots of opportunities to explore numbers in the context of their everyday environment. In addition to counting a range of things, including the different birds wading in the water meadow and singing on the wire, they encounter many other aspects of maths such as: estimating the number of leaves on a tree, telling the time and fractions. However, no matter how you divide things up, sharing is central to this warm sibling relationship.