One of my favorite books. This is a fun way to teach counting with some rhyming too. Having the children do their own 10 up top using apples and animals would be a great activity.

This Dr. Seuss book is part of a series that’s designed to help kids to learn to read, but that also means that it’s pretty basic and doesn’t have much for an adult to take away from it. So yeah.

Although I was a huge Dr. Seuss fan as a child, I missed Ten Apples Up on Top until my son started reading it. I probably missed it because he originally published it under his Theo LeSieg pseudonym. My son first discovered the edited board book version and the graduated to the full version in first grade. He in turn read it to his sister so now both children love it.

Ten Apples Up on Top is the story of three rollerskating friends, a lion, a dog and a tiger and their competition to see who can balance to most apples up on top. As they add more apples their rollerskating adventures become sillier and more extreme, highlighting the absurdity of balancing apples on one's head.

What I love abut Ten Apples Up on Top is that it's fun to read aloud but easy enough for early readers to handle by themselves. That means we can either join together on the couch for family story time or Sean or Harriet can read the book to themselves. Sometimes they even read it to me.

All of my children have been obsessed with this book so I'm not surprised my almost 2 year old keeps asking to read the "apple book". We love it so very much we have a board book and a regular hardback.

Great book to read to children. Children can learn to count reading this book. Teachers could use this book in a lesson for counting to ten. It also teaches them to recognize numbers as well.

First let me just say I love this authors books. This book is a great rhyming book so it is good if you want to point out words for language and literacy. It is also a great book for mathematics as the reader will be counting from one through 10. This book makes counting fun and exciting you can read this to your preschool class or even a youngYounger class. This book is great for all ages.

Counting Book
LeSieg, Theo (pseud). [Dr. Seuss]. Ten Apples Up On Top! (1961).
This silly Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss invites children to count along as a lion, a dog, and a tiger compete to see who can balance the most apples on their head. The competition escalates to a frenetic pace as the three characters decide to hop, skate, and drink while balancing apples in an effort to outdo each other. But with an angry bear on their tails, and a bunch of hungry birds after them will they be able to keep it up? In classic Dr. Seuss fashion, the silly rhymes and simple line illustrations with limited use of color engage and invite children to count and read along. The simple text includes many sight words and makes this a great book for beginning readers to practice decoding text. The images support the text so that when the lion states, "I can do three!" we see him balancing three red apples on his head that readers can point to and count for themselves. Lots of fun and very engaging, both in rhyming text and action packed illustrations, this book is sure to delight.
Target audience: ages 2-5.

A nice counting book that uses rhyme and repetition

Read this to our son when he was 3 months old. He loves it ❤

One of my very first completed books- the beginning of so many reading rendezvous

Its a silly book. Its awesome way of counting. Dr. Suess is a funny guy. this book can help with friendship as well as counting.

I love reading this and my baby always gets super excited for it too!