Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox is a favourite with parents and babies all over the world.

Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes is a fantastic book for so many reasons Written in gentle, rhyming verse, Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes is really a poem of love to babies the world over, brought to life by the divine illustrations of Helen Oxenbury.

The words and illustrations in this book are just beautiful. This is how it starts:

“There was one little baby who was born far away,
and another who was born on the very next day.
And both of these babies – as everyone knows –
had ten little fingers and ten little toes.”