Children’s Book Review: Hello Hello Numbers by Brendan Wenzel

HELLO HELLO NUMBERS
By: Brendan Wenzel
Published: June 24, 2025
Publisher: Chronicle Kids
Non-Fiction
Board Book

Already named one of Amazon Editors’ Best Children’s Books of 2025, the newest in Wenzel’s Hello Hello series teaches toddlers about animals and counting. In each of Wenzel’s Hello Hello board books, he features threatened, vulnerable, and endangered species while also teaching the concepts of shapes, opposites, colors, and now numbers.

From one to twelve, toddlers will learn to count on the pages while counting otters, gorillas, turtles, zebras, and more. The mixed-media illustrations of the animals are accurate yet quite adorable. As in the other books, he shares the status of all the animals mentioned in the book regarding their endangerment. He also teaches about the various group names of the animals mentioned, such as a leap of leopards or a band of gorillas.

This series is the first one that my great-nephews ask me to read to them. They are always fascinated by the names of various animals and love looking at the pages over and over.

Brendan Wenzel is an author and illustrator based in upstate New York. His debut picture book, They All Saw a Cat, was a New York Times bestseller and the recipient of a 2017 Caldecott Honor. An ardent conservationist, he is a proud collaborator with many organizations working to ensure the future of wild places and threatened species.

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