Everybody Counts: A counting story from 0 to 7.5 billion

I've read more picture books than most people, and sometimes I think I've heard every story. And then I run across Everybody Counts and I smile.

Everybody is a counting book and a Where's Waldo-ish book as well as a picture book filled with stories. Here's a typical page: There is an illustration of a hospital ER, drawn in blue, with chairs and magazines, and an attendant, and with seventeen people pictured in full color. The text: “Seventeen people in the emergency room. One of them hopes to recover before the costume parade. Nine of them are frustrated they have to wait so long. One of them loses something.”

I found it endlessly fascinating.