This is a softcover activity book that engages preschool aged children through bright and colorful handrawn illustrations, catching rhyme schemes and an ending that captures the essence of unity through a diverse group of children. Counting With Friends: Outside provides a foundation for preschool aged children to identify themselves within the ten individual characters and to embrace cultural differences in others in an age appropriate way. As well this book includes counting and recognizing numbers one through ten, the use of primary and secondary colors, identifying sight words, understanding sequencing in a story and is an interactive activity book that comes with a set of three primary colored crayons