Author: Vladimir Radunsky
Illustrator: Vladimir Radunsky
Year: 2002
Publisher: Viking
In 10 (Ten), Radunsky follows Mr. and Mrs. Armadillo, a newly married couple who soon discover that their family will be much bigger than expected. Mrs. Armadillo gives birth not to one baby, but to ten — each simply named One through Ten. The story unfolds with playful exaggeration as the couple learns what it means to care for a house suddenly filled with armadillo children.
Radunsky’s bold illustrations and offbeat humor turn the chaos of family life into a counting game. The book balances the everyday — naming the babies, receiving gifts — with the absurd, making the number ten feel both ordinary and extraordinary at once.