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A Learn @ your Library Booklist for children and their families
 Picture Counting and Number
Recognition
Bawden, Juliet
1 One-year-old
Children aged one to ten are shown in groups where the number of members corresponds to the age of the children.
Cabrera, Jane
Over in the meadow
This is a variation of the counting rhyme that introduces a variety of animals and their activities. There are many other editions of this title.
Carroll, Kathleen Sullivan
One red rooster
Introduces the numbers one through ten in rhymed text and illustrations of a variety of rather noisy farm animals.
Chandra, Deborah
Miss Mabel's table
A cumulative counting rhyme presents the ingredients and techniques used by Miss Mabel to cook enough pancakes to serve ten people.
Cuyler, Margery
100th day worries
Jessica worries about collecting 100 objects to take to class for the 100th day of school.
Falwell, Cathryn
Feast for 10
Numbers from one to ten are used to tell how members of a family shop and work together to prepare a meal.
Evans, Lezlie
Can you count ten toes?
Rhyming verses instruct the reader to count different objects in one of ten languages, including Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Tagalog, and Hebrew.
Fleming, Denise
Count!
The antics of lively and colorful animals present the numbers one to ten, twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty.
French, Vivian
One ballerina two
A young girl imitates the movements of ten ballet dancers.
Gollub, Matthew
Ten oni drummers
One by one, ten tiny oni, Japanese goblin-like creatures, grow larger and larger as
they beat their drums chase away bad dreams.
Grossman, Bill
My little sister ate 1 hare
Little sister has no problem eating one hare, two snakes, and three ants, but when
she gets to ten peas, she throws up quite a mess.
Guy, Ginger Foglesong
Fiesta!
Bilingual text describes a children's party and provides practice counting in English and Spanish.
Lesser, Carolyn
Spots : counting creatures from sky to sea
Spotted animals from around the world, including a leopard ray, ringed seals,
reticulated giraffes, and tundra butterflies, introduce the numbers from one to ten.
MacKinnon, Debbie
How many?
Invites the reader to find one child, two candles, three kittens, and other objects, up to ten cookies, in the photographs.
McKissack, Pat
Bugs!
Simple text and illustrations of a variety of insects introduce the numbers one through five.
Miller, Jane
Farm counting book
Introduces simple number concepts using color photographs of favorite farm animals.
Mora, Pat
Uno, dos, tres = One, two, three
Pictures depict two sisters going from shop to shop buying birthday presents for their mother. Rhyming text presents numbers from one to ten in English and Spanish.
Moss, Lloyd
Zin! zin! zin!: a violin
Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical performance.
Onyefulu, Ifeoma
Emeka's gift: an African counting story
Emeka counts his way through a Nigerian market place.
Rankin, Laura
The handmade counting book
Shows how to count from one to twenty and twenty-five, fifty, seventy-five, and one hundred using American Sign Language.
Root, Phyllis
One duck stuck
In this counting book, increasingly larger groups of animals try to help a duck that is stuck in the sleepy, slimy marsh.
Sierra, Judy
Counting crocodiles
In this rhymed retelling of a traditional Asian tale, a clever monkey uses her ability to count to outwit the hungry crocodiles that stand between her and a banana tree on an island.
Simon, Charnan
One happy classroom
Activities in a happy, busy kindergarten classroom introduce the numbers one to ten.
Smith, Maggie
Counting our way to Maine
On a trip to Maine, the family counts from one baby to twenty fireflies.
Van Laan, Nancy
Mama rocks, Papa sings
A little Haitian girl describes how her parents' house fills up with babies as relatives drop off their children on their way to work.
Walton, Rick
How many, how many, how many
The reader counts from one to twelve while guessing the answers to questions about nursery rhymes, names of the seasons, players on a football team, and other basic information.
Wells, Robert E
Can you count to a googol?
Introduces the concepts of very large numbers, up to a googol.
Wells, Rosemary
Emily's first 100 days of school
Starting with number one for the first day of school, Emily learns the numbers to one hundred in many different ways.
Addition/Subtraction
Christelow, Eileen
Five little monkeys jumping on the bed
A counting book in which one by one the little monkeys jump on the bed only to fall off and bump their heads.
Giganti, Paul
Each orange had 8 slices
An illustrated introduction to counting and simple addition.
Murphy, Stuart J
Elevator magic
Explains the concept of subtraction through a rhyming text about a descending elevator.
Murphy, Stuart J.
Shark swimathon
As members of a swim team do laps to qualify for swim camp, readers can practice subtracting two-digit numbers to see how many laps are left to go.
Multiplication/Division
Anno, Masaichiro.
Anno's mysterious multiplying jar
Simple text and pictures introduce the mathematical concept of factorials.
Appelt, Kathi
Bats on parade
On a midsummer's night the Marching Bat Band makes a rare appearance, its members
grouped in formations that demonstrate multiplication from two times two up to ten times ten.
Brimmer, Larry Dane
How many ants?
Ants increase by multiples of ten as they march up the hill toward a tall cake.
Burns, Marilyn
Spaghetti and meatballs for all: a mathematical story
The seating for a family reunion gets complicated as people rearrange the tables and chairs to seat additional guests.
Demi.
One grain of rice: a mathematical folktale
A reward of one grain of rice doubles day by day into millions of grains of rice when a selfish raja is outwitted by a clever village girl of India.
Hutchins, Pat
The doorbell rang
As the children gather around the table, their cookies are divided….and divided…and divided.
Murphy, Stuart J
Jump, kangaroo, jump
Kangaroo and his Australian animal friends divide themselves up into different groups for the various field day events at camp.
Neuschwander, Cindy
Amanda Bean's amazing dream: a mathematical story
Amanda loves to count everything, but not until she has an amazing dream does she finally realize that being able to multiply will help her count things faster.
Pinczes, Elinor J
One hundred hungry ants
One hundred hungry ants head towards a picnic to get yummies for their tummies. Along the way they stop to change their line formation, showing different divisions of one hundred.
Pinczes, Elinor J
A remainder of one
When the queen of the bugs demands that her army march in even lines, Private Joe
divides the marchers into more and more lines so that he will not be left out of the parade.
Schwartz, David M
How much is a million?
Text and pictures try to make possible the conceptualization of a million, a billion, and a trillion.
Counting Backwards!
Falwell, Cathryn
Turtle Splash! Countdown at the pond
As they are startled by the activities of other nearby creatures, the number of turtles on a log in a pond decreases from ten to one.
Rathmann, Peggy
10 minutes till bedtime
A boy's hamster leads an increasingly large group of hamsters on a tour of the boy's house, while his father counts down the minutes to bedtime.
Wise, William
Ten sly piranhas : a counting story in reverse (a tale of wickedness - and worse!)
A school of ten sly piranhas gradually dwindles as they waylay and eat each other.
Time
Harper, Dan
Telling time with Big Mama Cat
A cat describes her activities at various times throughout the day from morning to night. Features a clock with movable hands.
Kandoian, Ellen
Under the sun
Molly's mother answers her question about where the sun goes each night by taking her on a visual journey through the world's time zones.
Keenan, Sheila
What time is it? : a book of math riddles
Illustrations and rhyming questions and answers demonstrate how to tell time.
Llewellyn, Claire
My first book of time
Explains how to tell time and discusses such aspects of time as day and night, days of the week, and months of the year.
Maccarone, Grace
Monster math school time
From the time they get up at seven in the morning until they go to bed at eight o'clock at night, monsters spend a busy day, especially at school. Includes related activities.
Schuett, Stacey
Somewhere in the world right now
Describes what is happening in different places around the world at a particular time.
Singer, Marilyn.
Nine o'clock lullaby
While Mama reads a sleepy time tale at 9 p.m. in Brooklyn, people have a snack in the pantry at 2 a.m. in England, the cat knocks over the samovar at 5 a.m. in Moscow, a
family has a barbecue at noon in Australia, and the sun is setting at 6 p.m. in Los Angeles.
Money
Conford, Ellen
What's cooking, Jenny Archer?
Follows the comic mishaps of Jenny Archer as she goes into business preparing lunches for friends at school.
Murphy, Stuart J.
The penny pot
The face painting booth at the school fair provides plenty of opportunities to count combinations of coins adding up to fifty.
Rocklin, Joanne
The case of the shrunken allowance
Mike and his friends try to figure out why the money in his allowance jar appears to be shrinking. Includes related math activities.
Stevenson, James
Yard sale
Simsbury is sitting under his favorite tree when a red chair and an accordion pass by, prompting him to get up and take a look at the Mud Flats Yard Sale.
Williams, Rozanne Lanczak
The coin counting book
From pennies to dollars, the text and pictures work together to develop an understanding of our money system.
Measurement
Axelrod, Amy
Pigs in the pantry: fun with math and cooking
Mr. Pig and the piglets try to cook Mrs. Pig's favorite dish to cheer her up when she's sick. Includes a recipe for chili.
Carle, Eric
The grouchy ladybug
A grouchy ladybug who is looking for a fight challenges everyone she meets regardless of their size or strength.
Lionni, Leo
Inch by inch
Inch worm measures a robin's tail, the neck of a flamingo, a toucan's beak and more.
Murphy, Stuart J
Room for Ripley
Uses a story about a young boy who is getting a fish bowl ready for his new pet to introduce various units of liquid measure.
Tompert, Ann
Just a little bit
When Mouse and Elephant decide to go on the seesaw, Mouse needs a lot of help from other animals before they can go up and down.
Problem Solving
Tang, Greg
The grapes of math: mind stretching math riddles
Illustrated riddles introduce strategies for solving a variety of math problems by using visual clues.
Murphy, Stuart J.
Probably pistachio
Readers are introduced to the concept of probability in a story about a boy who has a day in which nothing goes right.
Scieszka, Jon
Math curse
When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety that becomes a real curse.
Sorting/Patterns
Murphy, Stuart J
Dave's down-to-earth rock shop
As they consider sorting their rock collection by color, size, type, and hardness, Josh and Amy learn that the same objects can be organized in many different ways.
Tompert, Ann
Grandfather Tang's story
Grandfather tells a story about shape-changing fox fairies who try to best each other until a hunter brings danger to both of them. Each story includes the use of a tangram.
Wells, Rosemary
Adding it up
Timothy and his classmates learn to add and subtract, count from one to twenty, and recognize shapes and patterns. Includes activities.
Zolotow, Charlotte
Some things go together
Illustrations accompany couplets describing things that go together naturally, such as "sand with sea" and especially "you with me."
Math Poems
Marvelous math: a book of poems
selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Presents such poems as Math Makes Me Feel Safe, Fractions, Pythagoras, and Time
Passes, by such writers as Janet S. Wong, Lee Bennett Hopkins, and Ilo Orleans.
McKellar, Shona (editor)
Counting rhymes
A collection of poems, including One Little Finger, I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing By,
and This Old Man, each featuring different numbers.
Michelson, Richard
Ten times better
Humorous poems about different animals highlight the numbers from one to ten and
their multiples of ten, such as a sloth having three toes while a centipede has thirty feet. Accompanied by factual information on the creatures and mathematical questions about them.
General
Murphy, Stuart J.
Missing mittens
As a farmer tries to find the correct number of mittens for his various farmyard animals, the reader is introduced to odd and even numbers.
Swinburne, Stephen R.
What's a pair? What's a dozen?
An introduction to number-related words.
Maganzini, Christy
Cool math
Describes mathematics from zero to infinity with stops along the way for ancient
puzzles, awesome math tricks, tantalizing math trivia, incredible shortcuts, and mysterious number magic.
This booklist was prepared at the
CRANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
140 Sockanosset Cross Road
Cranston, Rhode Island
(401) 943-9080
by Michelle A. Vallee
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