Counting Down Jazzy is a book about subtraction. Jazzy is a brown and white dog. She eats one of ten cupcakes to make nine. She eats one apple from nine to make eight. She continues to take away one until finally, she is down to one cat. What will she do with the Cat? Counting Down Jazzy is a wonderful way to teach how to count or to count backward. The repetitive and rhyming scheme builds confidence in early readers. Beautiful photos converted to lifelike illustrations accompany the rhyming text.