Tip Counts to Ten
Lisa van Klaveren
Paperback
(Olympia Publishers, Oct. 25, 2018)
Tip is a farm dog, a Border Collie, who works on his master's New Zealand cattle farm, looking after a hundred baby calves. Part of Tip's job is to bring the babies in to feed, ten at a time and he always gets it right, bringing in ten, never nine, never eleven. Tip does know, after all, how many baby calves make ten. To the farmer's surprise, Tip proves that this is true, when a calf goes missing.Based on a true story, Tip's beautifully illustrated adventure shows that some animals really can count and show concern for those in their care.