1 Smile, 10 Toes

Nelleke Verhoeff started her career performing shows for children, but then discovered her passion for art. She has since illustrated several books and was a finalist in the Silent Book Contest at the 2018 Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Nelleke has also illustrated The Bread Pet and Whole Whale for Barefoot Books. She lives in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

“With every turn of the bottom half of the book you get to count and recount a number of different toes, feet, scales, ankles, etc. The top is the same with different numbers of ears and wrinkles and so on and such. If a parent were to enjoy flipping through this with a kid, then the two could count together the new numbers as they present themselves . . . Brilliant!” – Betsy Bird, Librarian, @FuseEight