Due to a sudden, unexpected passing in the family a few years ago and another more recently and my subsequent (mental) health issues stemming from that, I was unable to download this book in time to review it before it was archived as I did not visit this site for several years after the bereavements. This meant I didn't read or venture onto netgalley for years as not only did it remind me of that person as they shared my passion for reading, but I also struggled to maintain interest in anything due to overwhelming depression. I was therefore unable to download this title in time and so I couldn't give a review as it wasn't successfully acquired before it was archived. The second issue that has happened with some of my other books is that I had them downloaded to one particular device and said device is now defunct, so I have no access to those books anymore, sadly.

This means I can't leave an accurate reflection of my feelings towards the book as I am unable to read it now and so I am leaving a message of explanation instead. I am now back to reading and reviewing full time as once considerable time had passed I have found that books have been helping me significantly in terms of my mindset and mental health - this was after having no interest in anything for quite a number of years after the passings. Anything requested and approved will be read and a review written and posted to Amazon (where I am a Hall of Famer & Top Reviewer), Goodreads (where I have several thousand friends and the same amount who follow my reviews) and Waterstones (or Barnes & Noble if the publisher is American based). Thank you for the opportunity and apologies for the inconvenience.

This book offers a rather original way of conceiving a counting book. I enjoyed the way that it was illustrated; the people are in color while the backgrounds are in outline.

Unlike other counting books that I have reviewed, this one offers up more for introspection and discussion. While it has a familiar “seek and find” aspect, some of the subject matter might be a bit dark for young children. For example, the number 7 offers a police lineup.

I would suggest that families who purchase this title take some time to discuss the pictures with their child. There seem to be a lot of worried people in these pages.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher. All opiniona are my own.

I would like to thank NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this ebook.

Everybody Counts by Kristin Roskifte is a quirky and wonderful book! Children would love this and I cannot wait to buy a copy for my daughter.

What a quirky counting book! I started reading it when my eleventh graders were taking a quiz and had to read it to them when they were done. We all loved the illustrations, the questions, and the premise of the book.

A lovely book for all ages. It shows that no matter what your age, religion, sex, country, career, hobbies etc, we all matter.

I'm actually very confused at first, my sister (a thirteen-year-old) felt the same as well, because both of us didn't really understand what the book was about. I later realized that the book is about different people with different lives, with different motivations and actions, and that every single person in this world is unique and different from others. Pushing the confusions aside, I really like the illustrations, and after explaining this book to my sister, she was able to understand, reread, and appreciate this book as well. So I guess this book requires a little bit of adult guidance when children are reading this. Thumbs up for the artwork :)

I'm not really sure how to classify this book. It's not a narrative. Its not really a counting book. It's a little bit philosophical, asking the young reader to consider motivations of various people, to think about what might be going on in others lives.

This book was great for looking at the importance of each person within the world wide population. There are opportunities to think about the unique story of each person in the book, but also for readers to consider their own stories and provoke discussion among a group.

With questions on each page about the characters pictured and further questions in the back of the book to encourage discussion and the development of inference in younger children.

The pictures are bright and engaging and as I read I found myself looking for figures who appeared on each page to see how they fitted into the world's story.

There were a couple of pages where I might be less likely to show these to children - for example a life-drawing class which I'm sure would draw many giggles (and questions!) However that would not deter me from using specific pages in reading lessons and to encourage reading along a mathematical theme.

Thank you to the publishers for granting me access to an eARC of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Wow! I expected a kiddy counting book but I was blown away! This is a book for kids, for adults, for anyone. It can become a puzzle for hours of fun. It can become a spot it game like Where's Wally? It can be the starting point for conversations, lighthearted and profound. This will become a firm favourite on your family or classroom bookshelf.

A wonderfully interconnected seek-and-find picture book for kids. Each page has a beautifully illustrated scene featuring a certain number of people. The bottom of each page shows the number, explains where the scene is, and lists a few whimsical details about some of the characters. The numbers go from 1 - 30, then by fives from 35 - 100, then 135, 200, 400, 1000. Kids will enjoy counting the people, and searching for the subtle clues.

I'm a librarian. Originally I wanted to read this book to see if it was in the same vein as Pete Spier's People, which is in my youth 100s ordering section. While I ultimately do not think it fits in with the 155s, I think it would do well in either the counting books, the look and find books, or general picture books. I think this book is very unique and interesting, giving a lot more life to the typical look and find books such as I Spy or Where's Waldo.

EVERYBODY COUNTS by Kristin Roskifte is a very unusual counting book. The artwork and the premise of the book are both very different and unique - and even a little weird. Don’t mistake this for a little kids’ counting book, although many kids will LOVE staring at the pictures and figuring out who is doing what.
Starting with ONE, of course, each page is drawn in blue lines, except for those being counted. And each page describes the people in the picture in an unexpected way. For example, “Five people in a family. Three of them love reading. One of them is secretly in love.” There are images we don’t often see in children’s books, like a police line-up and a funeral, but they are all depictions of real life events. There is so much to look at on each page, especially as the numbers build, and sharp eyes will depict some recurring characters. At the end, there are questions to answer by looking for specific pictures within the pages.
Honestly, I think this is a fascinating book for all ages. As a kid, I would have spent hours examining the pictures and figuring out every story - and I think that is the point. EVERYONE COUNTS because everyone has a story, and they are all worth telling.

I loved this book. A where’s Waldo styled book with a ddI worse cast of human beings. Encouraging counting as well as searching and finding. I felt the REAL scenarios were also so beautiful. Not everyone in this book was smiling and happy. Some were sad. Some were anxious. Some were angry. It was a book about the real feelings in the world. Validating not just emotions but diversity.

Truly one of the best children’s books and I cannot wait to get a physical copy in my hands!!

I received an advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This book is very unique and will appeal to many people but not all.
The book is many different things - counting from 1 to 7.5 billion, thinking skills - to answer the questions at the back of the book relating to each page. And about learning how everyone is different with different hobbies, fears, worries, interests, and paths in life but that we are all unique.
I enjoyed this book and found it intetesting and something different.

I don’t really know how to feel about this book to be honest. It was weird yet wonderful in its own unique way. Not what I expected at all!

What a strange little picture book! This is likely to be a big hit or a big miss with folks, but it's certainly unique! It's basically a sort of a seek-and-find book that goes from 0 to 7+ billion people, telling you a little bit about the people in each spread.

Each illustration is done with light blue and white, other than the people who are in full color. For each, there is a specific number of people and then some strange little random information about some of them. You have to guess which, and think about the rest of the story.

For example:

Two people in the forest. One of them says something the other will remember the rest of his life.

Six people in an elevator. One of them is scared he's missing out. Two of them feel lonely.

It goes on like this, going up by one number for most of the book and then skipping to larger numbers like 1,000 and ultimately everybody. At the end, there is a double page spread that asks you questions about some of the people (where was this one relaxing, etc.) and then at the end there is a little blurb with more of the story for each spread.

It's a very interesting perspective and it will certainly make children (and adults) think. It can be a bit odd and a bit dark at times. One spread is of people in a prison, and only a certain number are actually guilty. Of the 15 people at a funeral, only 13 of them are grieving. Of the 26 people in the supermarket, one of them is stealing.

On the playground, there is the cliche of one of the children will invent a vaccine that saves millions of lives, but for the most part they are unique little interesting tidbits. A surprising number of the people stand on their heads one time or another.

I saw after reading the book that it was written in Norway, and had a bit of an aha! moment. This definitely doesn't feel like a standard American picture book, which is not to say that's a bad thing at all. It's just got a different sort of feel to the art and the stories. I didn't personally enjoy it as much as I expected to but I can't put my finger on why. I think I didn't really connect to the art and for some reason the stories sort of missed the mark for me. That said, it's the kind of book that will stay with a child and make them think, which is almost always a good thing. It's definitely one to check out, and one that many people will really enjoy.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

This book is amazing. The possibilities for using this in class at school, with children of all ages, are endless. There are people to spot, stories to follow and problems to solve on every page. I cannot wait to buy a hardcopy of this book to share. I have already gone back over the book to spot new things. I love it!

This deceptive book actually proves to be one of the deepest, richest things you can buy. It looks like being an exercise in counting, for each image has one more person in it than the page before, and what with them in bright dynamic colours in a world that's made of flat, pale blue outlines only, we're easily able to see them. Slowly we see that the captions are suggesting things we can't immediately tell right away about some of the people, whether it be their immediate future, or their current status, or what they might grow up to do. And slowly it dawns on us that we're seeing the same people over and over again – in particular the VAT man and his son. People who meet over the art books in the library turn up in the gallery (and other places), where we're asked to predict which character is the award-winning artist we'll end up seeing win an award. Etc. Once we've gone over thirty we leap forward in larger gaps, until – well, that would be telling. But then we get the world's most philosophical Where's Wally puzzle, asking us not only about the miniatures of the people in the book, but about ourselves too. Finally, a whole key doesn't tell us those solutions, but does tell us so much more about each and every picture we've been poring over beforehand and the people in every one.

The whole book is designed to make us more thoughtful of connections, the similarities and differences between all our stories, and what our expectations about them might be. So yes, it is an exercise in counting, in thinking about fictional characters, and about following patterns and connecting the dots from one diorama to the next, but it's also so much more. I'd perhaps buy this for someone learning their numeracy, but the thought that this was solely for that purpose kind of goes out the window early on when we go to a funeral. I'd certainly buy this for anyone of any age who is keen to instil the bigger questions in the young, and I'd certainly buy this for anyone with a liking for the more quirky, unusual and less well-established ways of telling stories. For them alone this is a five star purchase.