Hi! Welcome to the Walking in Whitehorse, a Counting Adventure website.
Walking in Whitehorse is a counting book for kids, that I hope adults will enjoy as well. It’s a busy book, with more to count on every page. Every page is covered with a beautiful, somewhat whimsical two-page spread in full colour. The pictures are digital photo collages, created by me, Peri Livesey, mostly from my own photos, taken on walks in the wilderness city of Whitehorse, in the Yukon, in Canada.
Whitehorse is situated on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dun First Nation and Ta’an Kwach’an Council. I acknowledge and honour their enduring integration with this land. This is their home, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to live and work here. It is an enthralling land.
Whitehorse is a beautiful city, surrounded by mountains, with a river running through it. And it truly is a wilderness city – the vast majority of photos used in the were taken within city limits, while the city-side slopes of three of the mountains protrayed (Grey Mountain, Golden Horn, and Mount McIntyre) are officially within those limits. So walking in Whitehorse is walking in wilderness, with the chance of encountering many animals, plants and more to count!
Part of what makes Walking in Whitehorse a counting adventure is that it is an introduction to some of those animals and plants, with clear, full colour pictures for identification (though the scale is not to be trusted – ground squirrels are not taller than boats!). All natural flora and fauna featured, including 28 (or so) species of Yukon wildflowers, are identified by name in full spreads on the end pages, as are ten mountains in the Whitehorse area. At this time I’m still working on figuring out some of the common English names, and those are what will be in the book, but I will have scientific names and other languages on this site as I learn them, and maybe there will even be translations! (Gotta think big, right?)
Walking in Whitehorse is also a counting adventure because of all the things there are to find. One big boat, two bald eagles, three wide mountains, four playing foxes… and one of everything else, two of everything else, three of everything else, right on up to ten each of boats, eagles, mountains, foxes, kinds of flowers, squirrels, swans, humans, ravens and dogs! Along with at least one white horse on every page. And maybe some extras I’ll be able to squeeze in…
Adventures in counting come when kids learn to count beyond one by one, and start to see more of the relationships between numbers. Walking in Whitehorse introduces counting by twos and by fives, with many items paired, and flowers in groups of five. And on the 9 page all subects are grouped in threes. (As it stands now. The nine ravens page may change, as I am investigating getting some important input into this book, which I am very excited about and will announce here as soon as I have anything definite!)
So please come back and check for progress on this fun counting book for kids and their adults! Right now I’ve got the first six spreads pretty much laid out, and a couple others partly done, but I’ve got a lot more work to do!
If you’ve got any comments on what you’ve seen so far, I’d love to hear them, so please take a moment and let me know below.
Thanks for coming by!