Washoe County Library System

When the regular schoolbus is in the shop, a clever driver must use all that he knows about addition and subtraction to ensure that seventy-six children get on--and off--of the four-seat substitute bus.

Hoping to be the last person awake, a young girl keeps count as one person after another turns out a light in the apartment building across from hers.

Hoping to win lunch with famous entomologist Arizona Brown, Albert looks for all twelve bugs at the insect zoo and counts down each time he finds one.

Throughout the day, a child notices, counts, and compares numbers of items, such as how many boys and girls are on the playground and how many more girls there are than boys, until there is finally something that cannot be counted.