1 One is All: The parent number, where everything starts. We would have Nothing without One 1 -- 2 Two is You and Your Image in the Mirror: The first one more-you and me 29 -- 3 Three is a Magic Number: Once upon a time, there were three wishes, three little kittens, three princes, three bears... 43 -- 4 Four is a Solid Number: Quarters and squares and the spaces between our fingers 56 -- 5 Five is for Fingers: Counting on your fingers, from one to thousands 75 -- 6 Six is Perfect: Mathematical perfection, and what snowflakes and bees have in common 93 -- 7 Seven is a Happy Number: The serious and frivolous sides of seven 109 -- 8 Eight is Forever: The roundness of eight, and its link to infinity 124 -- 9 Nine is a New Number: Late in the history of counting, the tricks of nine 143 -- 0 Zero is Not Nothing: A circle around nothing makes everything possible 159 -- 10 Ten Means Two Hands: The first of the double-digit numbers and the first to include a zero 178 -- 11 Eleven is a Leftover Number: One at the foot 192 -- 12 Twelve is the Last of the Basic Number Names: Dozens and dozens and dozens: when we counted by twelves 201 -- 100: Hundred is a Strange Word: A leap into big-time numbers 223 -- 1,000: Thousand is a Swollen Hundred: Here we have a great and glorious number 233 -- 1,000,000: Million is Not Yet Forever: Millions and billions and trillions-and their aires 244 -- And One More: The Manifest Destiny of Numbers: There's no last number. Add one more-again and forever 251.
