Hello Ninjas! by Joan Holub - ADVISABLE

Hello Ninjas! by Joan Holub, illustrated by Chris Dickason. BOARD BOOK. Simon and Schuster, 2018. $9. 9781534418691

BUYING ADVISORY: Pre-K - ADVISABLE

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

Three Samurai give ten ninjas a challenge that leads them to a box of tacos. The Samurai have a hard time sharing though and take the tacos, and thus the ninjas, on a journey. When the ninjas catch up, they share a taco salad dinner.  

For being a board book, the plot was surprising hard to follow. Why did the ninjas give the challenge and then take the prize? What I did like was that instead of just a counting book, it led the reader to addition and subtraction concepts. When three ninjas knocked down a door, seven rushed inside, thus pairing numbers to equal ten. 

Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher