I Can Count to Ten and Back Again

Written by	Linda Hayward
Illustrator	Maggie Swanson
Published	1985
Publisher	Western Publishing
Series	Sesame Street Book Club
ISBN	0307231488

I Can Count to Ten and Back Again is a 1985 Sesame Street storybook featuring Big Bird.

Big Bird decides to set up a store, and looks around to find things to sell. He has a glass of water, two wheels, three carrots, four pictures of himself, five ketchup bottles, six cookies, seven wax bananas, eight rotten eggs, nine noisy rattles and ten golf balls.

One by one, his friends come to buy items from Big Bird's store, giving Big Bird the chance to count backwards from ten to one.

Characters

Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Bert, Prairie Dawn, Twiddlebugs, Oscar the Grouch, Count von Count, Sherlock Hemlock, Granny Bird, The Amazing Mumford, Grover, Slimey

Reissues

1992
Reader's Digest
ISBN 030723116X

Reader's Digest Young Families

This book was also recorded for the Big Bird StoryMagic toy in 1987. The tape includes a new recording of "Counting Is Wonderful" by Big Bird.

StoryMagic book cover

Translations

Tell til ti med Gule FuglNorway, 1997
82-7106-275-1

Ik kan al tot tien tellenThe Netherlands, 1986
Lekturama

Je compte jusqu'à dix et de dix à un, je glisseCanada
Laffont 1985
transl. Pauline Normand and Marielle Richer
ISBN 2891493346