Children learn number shapes with their hands long before they can write them, and this book is built entirely around that fact. Each numeral is grooved into the thick board, so a fingertip runs the shape the same way a pencil eventually will. The muscle memory arrives first and the writing follows.

Meet 1 gentle giraffe, 2 tigers on a tandem and 3 trundling tractors, and keep counting from there. The alliterative text makes every number a small tongue twister a toddler wants to repeat, Elisa Ferro's illustrations give them plenty to find on each spread, and the counting practice happens on its own, without ever being announced as a lesson.

Sixteen board pages by Felicity Brooks, for children aged two and up. Part of the same Usborne Fingertrails series as Fingertrail ABC and Fingertrail Mazes, both also at Stellar Luxe, for building the full set.