Review: David Chuka combines learning counting, friendship, multiracial friends
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2013
Things are not always as light as they seem on the surface of David Chuka's immensely entertaining books.  His writing is rhyming in this book, his drawings are colorful and fun, his lesson is in counting from 1 - 10,  both seeing the numerical and the written number in tandem with a drawn backup. For example, `Seven for Billy... Who's doing something silly.' (7, seven, seven eggs, and a little brown boy dressed like an Indian, juggling).  All that works very well and is particularly good for the very young reader.But the quiet message that will probably be picked up subconsciously by the children fortunate enough to have this learning book is the fact that Chuka makes all the recipients of the egg gifts (in order or course) from every racial background. He doesn't make a point of it or draw attention to it. And the likely result will be a gradual recognition by children that all their book people are just like the kids they meet outside the home - every color and race and description.  This kind of sensitivity is in all of David Chuka's books.  He knows what he is about! Grady Harp, February 13