“Two” is a wonderful squeal to the book “One,” written and illustrated by Kathrine Otoshi. The book is about 1 and 2 who are best friends and always play together, they even have a chant. Then 3 comes along and asks one if he wants to play, he says that 2 always plays with one and 3 should play with one too. 2  asks if he can play too, but 3 says it’s just odd numbers. Soon 1 and 3 are always playing together and even have their own chant, this makes 2 very blue. All the even numbers try to comfort 2, but it doesn’t work. Soon the even numbers band together, and so do the odd, and everyone is fighting.  2 convinces them to stop fighting and all the numbers dance and play together.

I think the theme of this story is friendship. And the message of this story is that we can all be friends, and we don’t have to exclude others.