Laura Hooper

The Sumbunnies and the Tom Cat Laura Hooper

Young bunny sisters are startled to find a hungry tom cat in their midst and must use all their strengths along with enlisting the help of their bunny brothers to save their family. Mama bunny loves numbers so much that she names her 10 children 6+4, 3+6, 7+1, 3+4, 0+6, 3+2, 2+2, 1+2, 1+1, and 0+1. The amazing thing about their names is that they can be written many ways and still have the same name. This book uses all whole number addition facts several times throughout the story to help children who are fluent readers but find that numbers elude them. They discover that numbers aren't so scary and can almost function as words.