Lois Ehlert

Illustrations and rhyming text follow ten caterpillars as one wriggles up a flower stem, another sails across a garden pool, and one reaches an apple leaf, where something amazing happens.

An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree.

Numbers from one to one hundred climb to the top of an apple tree in this rhyming chant.