Focus on ages 0-5:
Compiled by Judy Ballweg, Preschool Math Resource Teacher, Madison
Metropolitan School District, 2009:
PICTURE BOOKS WITH MATH CONCEPTS: 0-3 (0-3 Years)
A list of picture books featuring math concepts
for infants, toddlers and twos. ▼Download PDF
CONSTRUCTING MATH BOOK LIST (3-5 Years)
Explore math concepts through a construction
theme using this picture book list. ▼Download PDF
PICTURE BOOKS WITH MATH CONCEPTS (3-5 Years)
A list of picture books for preschool
children, categorized by math content area. ▼Download PDF
10 BOOKS TO CELEBRATE 10 (0-3 Years)
A list of great books that feature
the numbers 1-10 for infants, toddlers, and twos. ▼Download PDF
10 BOOKS TO CELEBRATE 10 (3-5 Years)
A list of great books that feature the numbers
1-10 for preschool children. ▼Download PDF
Math and Literature Bibliography Gr K
Anno’s Counting Book. Anno, Mitsumasa. HarperTrophy, 1986.
A counting book showing the changing seasons
over a twelve month period.
Barn Cat: A Counting
Book. Saul, Carol P., and Mary Azarian. Little Brown, 1998.
A barn cat notices groups of countable animals
from 1 through 10 while searching for something
special.
Bear in a Square. Blackstone, Stella. Barefoot Books, 1998.
Bear wanders through familiar settings,
discovering different shapes along the way.
Bears at the Beach:
Counting 10 to 20. Yektai, Niki. Millbrook Press, 1996.
Presents numbers from 10 to 20 using
illustrations of three bear families.
Beep-Beep, Vroom Vroom! Murphy, Stuart J. HarperTrophy, 2000.
Illustrates visual patterns and sequences as a
young girl lines up a set of toy cars in different
arrangements.
Benny’s Pennies. Brisson, Pat. Random House, 1995.
Benny sets off with five shiny new pennies to
spend and buys something for each member of his family.
The Best Bug Parade. Murphy, Stuart J. HarperCollins, 1996.
A variety of bugs compare and order their
relative sizes while going on parade.
Bats Around the Clock. Appelt, Kathi. HarperCollins, 2000.
Tells time to the hour as the bats dance around
the clock.
Brown Rabbit’s Shape
Book. Baker, Alan. Larousse Kingfisher Cambers, 1999.
Brown Rabbit finds a box of balloons and creates
various solid shapes.
Bugs! McKissack, Patricia & Frederick. Children’s Press, 2000.
Two children count different sets of 1 to 5
bugs.
Bunny Day: Telling Time
from Breakfast to Bedtime. Walton, Rick. HarperCollins, 2002.
A bunny family shows their daily routine,
telling time to the hour.
The Button Box. Reid, Margarette S. Dutton, 1990.
A child sorts different buttons in her
grandmother’s button box.
A Cake All for Me! Beil, Karen Magnuson. Scholastic, 1998.
A pig gives directions for baking a cake
including number words through 20, and discovers that good
food is much better when shared.
Capacity. Pluckrose, Henry. Children’s Press, 1995.
Uses tools to compare, order, and measure
capacity.
Catch That Goat! Alakija, Polly. Barefoot Books, 2002.
Backward counting from 10 to 1 as Ayoka follows
her goat through the market.
A Chair for My Mother. Williams, Vera B. Greenwillow, 1992.
A child, her mother, and her grandmother save
dimes to buy a new chair.
The Coin Counting Book. Williams, Rozanne Lanczak. Charlesbridge Publishing, 2001.
Groups and counts coins through rhyming text and
clear, colorful photographs.
Count! Fleming, Denise. Henry Holt, 1995.
Counting animals from 1 through 20, then by tens
to 50.
Counting Our Way to
Maine. Smith, Maggie. Orchard Books, 1995.
On a trip to Maine, a family counts from one
baby to twenty fireflies.
Dear Daisy, Get Well
Soon. Smith, Maggie. Crown Publishers, 2000.
Reinforces the days of the week and counting
skills through this story of friendship.
Dim Sum For Everyone. Lin, Grace. Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
A child describes dishes of dim sum, showing
solid shapes in the real world.
A Dollar for Penny. Glass, Julie. Random
House, 2000.
Penny learns about currency when she sets up a lemonade stand in her yard.
The Doorbell Rang. Hutchins, Pat.
Greenwillow, 1986.
Focuses on building sets with 12 by making sure everyone has an equal amount of Ma’s wonderful
cookies.
Each Orange Had 8 Slices: A Counting Book. Giganti, Paul, Jr. William Morrow, 1999.
Counting a variety of illustrations through 50.
Eating Fractions. McMillan, Bruce.
Scholastic, 1991.
Food is cut into halves, quarters, and thirds to
illustrate how parts make a whole.
Every Buddy Counts. Murphy, Stuart J. HarperCollins, 1997.
A little girl goes through the day counting her
animal friends from 1 to 10.
Feast for Ten. Falwell, Cathryn. Clarion Books, 1993.
Numbers from 1 through 10 are used to tell how members of a family shop and work together to
prepare a meal.
The First Day of School.
Johnston, Tony. Scholastic, 1997.
Best friends show the concepts of alike and
different when they are placed in different classes at
school.
Five Little Kittens. Jewell, Nancy. Clarion Books, 1999.
Shows the daily routine of five little kittens
through rhyme.
Five Creatures. Jenkins, Emily. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2001.
A young girl sorts by color, size, kind, and own
rule as she describes the three humans and two cats that
live in her house.
Flower Garden. Bunting, Eve. Harcourt Brace, 1999.
Examples of different sizes, capacities, and
weights can be found in this story of a girl and her father
buying flowers to plant in a window box for her mother.
Fraction Action. Leedy, Loreen. Scott Foresman, 1996.
Miss Prime and her animal students explore
fractions by finding many examples in the world around.
Give Me Half! Murphy, Stuart J. HarperTrophy, 1996.
A young boy and his sister learn the concepts of
part and whole as they divide a pizza.
Gray Rabbit’s Odd One
Out. Baker, Alan. Kingfisher, 1995.
Gray Rabbit tidies up his room and sorts his
belongings by kind, shape, and color.
The Great Pet Sale. Inkpen, Mick. Orchard Books, 1998.
Attracted by a sale at the pet store, a boy
tries to decide which animal to buy with his money.
The Grouchy Ladybug. Carle, Eric. HarperCollins, 1996.
A grouchy ladybug, challenges everyone she meets regardless of their size.
The Handmade Counting
Book. Rankin, Laura. Dial Books, 1998.
Numbers through 100 are shown in numeral form
and in American Sign Language.
How Many Feet in the
Bed? Hamm, Diane Johnston. Aladdin Paperbacks, 1994.
Count the feet as a family of five tumble in and
out of bed on a Sunday morning.
How Many Snails? Giganti, Paul, Jr. Scholastic, 1998.
Gives children an opportunity to count objects
to 20 and higher as a young child takes a walk.
I Bought a Baby Chicken.
Halls, Kelly Milner. Boyds Mills Press, 2000.
A young girl and her family count from 1 to 10
as they go on a chicken-buying spree at the general
store.
I Can Add Up. Gibson, Ray. Usborne Publishing, 1998.
Introduces the concepts of addition and
subtraction of 1 and 2 through colorful illustrations.
I Knew Two Who Said Moo:
A Counting and Rhyming Book. Barrett, Judi. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000.
This fun and silly counting book covers number 1
through 10.
The Icky Bug Counting
Book. Pallotta, Jerry. Charlesbridge, 1992.
Counting a variety of insects from 1 to 26.
If the Shoe Fits. Soto, Gary. Putnam, 2002.
Introduces capacity through the story of a young
boy and his new shoes.
In the Yard. Meachen Rau, Dana. Compass Point Books, 2002.
As the seasons change, a family shares both fun
and chores in their yard.
James and the Rain. Kuskin, Karla. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
James goes out into the rain to play rainy day
games with different numbers of animals from 1 to 10.
Just a Little Bit. Tompert, Ann. Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
A great big elephant and a tiny little mouse
compare weights when they try to play on the seesaw
together.
Just a Minute! Harper, Anita. Putnam, 1987.
A kangaroo discovers advantages and
disadvantages to taking a longer and a shorter time to complete
different tasks.
Length. Pluckrose, Henry. Children’s Press, 1995.
Compares, orders, and measures length through
simple, colorful photographs.
Let’s Count. Hoban, Tana. Greenwillow, 1999.
These photographs show counting objects from 1
to 15, then from 20 to 50 in tens, ending with 100.
Let’s Count It Out,
Jesse Bear. Carlstrom, Nancy White. Simon & Schuster, 1996.
While walking to an amusement park, Jesse Bear
counts from 1 to 20.
The Line Up Book. Russo, Marisabina. Greenwillow, 1986.
Shows ways to measure as Sam lines up toys from
his room all the way to his mother in the kitchen.
Little Rabbits’ First
Number Book. Baker, Alan. Kingfisher,
1998.
Little Rabbit helps explain grouping like
objects, more and less, counting, and matching.
More Bugs? Less Bugs? Curry, Don L. Capstone, 2000.
Presents the adding and subtracting of a variety
of bugs.
More or Less a Mess. Keenan, Sheila. Scholastic, 1997.
A little girl uses sorting and classifying
skills to tackle the huge mess in her room.
More, Fewer, Less. Hoban, Tana. Greenwillow, 1998.
Photographs illustrate groupings of objects in
larger and smaller numbers.
Monster Musical Chairs. Murphy, Stuart J. HarperTrophy, 2000.
Children learn to subtract 1 with these 6 funny
monsters.
Morning, Noon, and
Night. George, Jean Craighead. HarperCollins, 1998.
Shows times of day as animals perform their
daily routines.
Mrs. McTats and Her
Houseful of Cats. Capucilli, Alyssa Satin. M.K. McElderry Books, 2001.
Shows number words 1 through 26 as a woman makes room for more and more cats in her home.
Mrs. Sato’s Hens. Min, Laura. GoodYearBooks, 1994.
Mrs. Sato and a child count eggs to 6 on
different days of the week.
My Backpack. Bunting, Eve. Boyds Mills Press, 1997.
A young boy discovers how many items he can put
into his new backpack.
Numbears: A Counting
Book. Hague, Kathleen. Henry Holt, 1999.
A group of bears engaged in a variety of
activities introduce the numbers 1 through 12.
On the Stairs. Larios, Julie Hofstrand. Front Street, 1999.
A little mouse counts from 1 to 12 as she goes
up the stairs.
One Duck Stuck. Root, Phyllis. Candlewick Press, 1998.
Increasingly larger groups of animals through 10
try to help a duck that is stuck in the marsh.
One Less Fish. Toft, Kim Michelle. Charlesbridge, 1998.
Counting down from 12 to 0, learn about some of
the fish found on the Great Barrier Reef.
One Lonely Sea Horse. Freymann, Saxton. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2000.
Counting from 1 to 10 groups of sea creatures
made out of fruits and vegetables.
One Moose, Twenty Mice. Beaton, Clare. Barefoot Books, 1999.
Counting different creatures from 1 through 20
while hunting for a hidden cat.
One, Two, Three Jump! Lively, Penelope. M.K. McElderry Books, 1999.
A young frog compares length and size as he
comes across various obstacles through a garden.
Outside Inside. Crimi, Carolyn. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
A young girl notices different things are
outside her window and inside her house.
Over in the Grasslands. Wilson, Anna. Little Brown, 2000.
Counting from 1 to 10 groups of African animals through rhyming text.
A Pair of Socks. Murphy, Stuart J. Scholastic, 1996.
Introduces pattern recognition as a sock
searches the house for its lost mate.
Pattern Fish. Harris, Trudy. Millbrook Press, 2000.
Describes various patterns depicted by different
fish.
Patterns: What Comes
Next? Koomen, Michele. Bridgestone Books, 2001.
Illustrates patterns of position, size, color,
and growing patterns.
A Pig Is Big. Florian, Douglas. Greenwillow, 2000.
This rhyming text compares and orders the sizes
of different animals.
The Pig Is in the
Pantry, the Cat Is on the Shelf. Mozelle, Shirley. Clarion Books, 2000.
Shows times of day and time to the hour as Mr. McDuffel returns home to find that the barnyard
animals have taken over and created chaos.
Quack and Count. Baker, Keith. Harcourt Brace, 1999.
Seven ducklings take a rhyming look at addition.
Rabbit and Hare Divide
an Apple. Ziefert, Harriet. Viking, 1998.
Rabbit and Hare learn an important lesson about fractions and sharing.
Rosie’s Walk. Hutchins, Pat. Simon & Schuster, 1968.
Uses position words and repeating patterns to
describe Rosie’s walk around the farmyard.
Seaweed Soup. Murphy, Stuart J. HarperTrophy, 2001.
Turtle must make up sets of dishes as he
continues to ask more friends to join him for lunch.
Seven Blind Mice. Young, Ed. Scholastic, 1992.
Count seven blind mice as they discover
different parts of an elephant and argue about its appearance.
The Shape of Things. Dodds, Dayle Ann. Candlewick Press, 1996.
Shows how plane shapes can be seen in many real
world objects.
Shapes. Granowsky, Alvin. Copper Beech Books, 2001.
Presents different objects as examples of
various shapes.
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes. Hoban, Tana. Greenwillow, 1996.
Photographs of familiar objects present a study
of rounded and angular shapes.
Shape Space. Falwell, Cathryn. Clarion Books, 1992.
A young dancer dances her way among geometric
shapes.
Slower Than a Snail. Schreiber, Anne. Scholastic, 1995.
A brother and sister compare speed, sizes, and
weight while running a race.
Snowy Flowy Blowy: A
Twelve Months Rhyme. Tafuri, Nancy. Scholastic, 1999.
Follow a family through the twelve months of a
year with this rhyming story.
Sorting and Sets. Pluckrose, Henry. Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2001.
Explore sorting by color, size, shape, and kind
to make sets.
Splash! Jonas, Ann. Mulberry Books, 1997.
Shows concepts of addition and subtraction
through a little girl’s question “How many are in my
pond?”
Starting Off with
Addition and Subtraction. Patilla, Peter. Barrons Juveniles, 2001.
Familiarizes children with groups of countable
objects, then introduces addition and subtraction.
Stephen Cartwright 1 2
3. Cartwright, Stephen. Usborne Publishing, 1992.
Count animals 1 through 21 as they arrive at
Wiggly Pig’s birthday party.
Ten Black Dots. Crews, Donald. Mulberry Books, 1994.
A counting book that shows building sets with
ten black dots.
Ten Red Apples.
Hutchins, Pat. Greenwillow, 2000.
Count backwards as one animal after another eats
an apple from the farmer’s tree.
Tops & Bottoms. Stevens, Janet. Harcourt Brace, 1995.
Demonstrates top, middle, and bottom as Hare
makes a deal with the bear down the road.
A Tree for Me. Van Laan, Nancy. Dragonfly Books, 2002.
A young boy discovers and counts groups of
animals to 5 as he searches for a tree.
Twenty is Too Many. Duke, Kate. Dutton, 2000.
A tale of twenty guinea pigs illustrates the
process of subtraction as their numbers dwindle.
Two of Everything. Hong, Lily Toy. Albert Whitman, 1993.
A Chinese farmer finds a magic pot that doubles whatever is placed inside it.
The Very Hungry
Caterpillar. Carle, Eric. Putnam,
1994.
Follow a hungry little caterpillar through the
days of the week as he eats his way through a variety of
food.
The Very Small. Dunbar, Joyce. Harcourt, 2000.
Compares sizes of Giant Baby Bear and the Very
Small.
When Sheep Cannot Sleep:
The Counting Book. Kitamura, Satoshi. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux,
1986.
Counting from 1 through 22 with Wooly the sheep.
Who’s Counting? Tafuri, Nancy. Mulberry Books, 1993.
A variety of animals introduce the numbers 1
through 10.
You’ll Never Guess! Dunbar, Fiona. Dial Books for Young Readers, 1991.
Illustrates shapes in the real world as two
children look at shadows and try to guess their shape.
Math and Literature Bibliography Gr 1
Can You Count Ten Toes? by Lezlie Evans. Houghton Mifflin, 1999
You can learn to count in ten different
languages in this counting book.
A Collection for Kate by Barbara deRubertis Econo-Clad Books, 2000
It’s Collection Week at Kate’s school and she
doesn’t have a collection. What can she do?
Count on Pablo by Barbara deRubertis Econo-Clad Books, 1999
Pablo shows how good he is at counting when he
helps his grandmother, his “abuela,” sell vegetables.
Fish Eyes: A Book You
Can Count On by Lois Ehlert. Harcourt, 2001
Brightly colored fish introduce children to
counting.
Gator Pie by Louise Mathews. Sundance, 1995
A group of alligators divide a pie into smaller
and smaller fractional parts.
The Grapes of Math:
Mind-Stretching Math Riddles by Greg Tang. Scholastic, 2001
Use visual clues to solve a variety of math
riddles.
How Many Feet In the
Bed? by Dianne Johnston Hamm. Simon & Schuster, 1994
Count feet as five family members tumble in and
out of bed.
Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni. Bt Bound, 1999
An inchworm is proud of his ability to measure everything under the sun.
Just a Little Bit by Ann Tompert. Houghton Mifflin, 1993
Mouse and Elephant are playing on a seesaw and
need help from lots of animal friends to balance the
scales.
Just One More by Michelle Koch. Greenwillow Books, 1991
A counting book from one to fifteen that also
explores the concept of “one more.”
Lemonade For Sale by Bettina Ling. Millbrook Press, 1998
With help, Kate sells enough lemonade to buy a
special present.
Let’s Fly a Kite by Stuart J. Murphy. HarperCollins, 2000
Bob and Hannah learn about symmetry as they
build and fly a kite.
Lights Out! by Lucille Recht Penner. Econo-Clad Books, 2000
A young girl counts the lights as each is turned
out in the apartment building across from hers.
Lulu’s Lemonade by Barbara deRubertis. Econo-Clad Books, 2000
Three children make special lemonade on a hot
day and squabble over which ingredients and what
quantities to use.
Me Counting Time by Joan Sweeney. Crown Books for Young Readers, 2000
Describes the relationship between various measurements of time.
Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy. Econo-Clad Books, 2000
For homework, Lisa decides to measure her dog,
Penny. She uses all sorts of units, including pounds,
inches, dog biscuits, and cotton swabs.
Missing Mittens by Stuart J. Murphy. Econo-Clad Books, 2001
Children are introduced to odd and even numbers
as they unravel the mitten mystery on Farmer Bill’s
farm.
One Hundred is a Family by Pam Muñoz Ryan. Hyperion, 1994
Groups making up different types of families
introduce numbers from one to ten, and then by tens to one
hundred.
One Less Fish by Kim Michelle Toft. Charlesbridge, 1998
Learn about threatened tropical fish in the
Great Barrier Reef as you count down from twelve to zero.
One More Bunny by Rick Walton. HarperCollins, 2001
Bunnies introduce the numbers one through ten as
they play.
1 + 1 Take Away Two! by Michael Berenstain. Golden Books, 1991
Single-digit addition and subtraction equations
are modeled with jungle animal illustrations.
Over in the Meadow, a
Rhyme illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats. Penguin Group, 1999
Animal mothers and their babies introduce the
numbers one through ten in this favorite counting rhyme.
The Purse by Kathy Caple. Houghton Mifflin, 1986
Kathy spends all of her money to buy a purse,
but then must earn the money to put in it.
A Quarter From the Tooth
Fairy by Caren Holtzman. Econo-Clad Books, 1995
A young boy gets a quarter from the Tooth Fairy
and has trouble deciding how to spend it.
Sea Sums by Joy N. Hulme. Hyperion, 1996
Changing numbers of sea creatures are added and subtracted as they swim in the shallows of a
coral reef.
Shape (Math Counts) by Henry Arthur Pluckrose. Scholastic, 1995
Using the Math Counts series, children can
become mathematical problem solvers.
So Many Cats! by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers. Houghton Mifflin, 1991
One lonely cat turns into twelve in this
counting story.
Take Off with Numbers by Sally Hewitt. Raintree Publishers, 1996
Use everyday objects and situations to explore
the world of numbers.
Two of Everything by Lily Toy Hong. Whitman, 1993
Mr. and Mrs. Haktak become rich after
discovering a brass pot that doubles everything that’s put
into it.
What’s a Pair? What’s a
Dozen? by Stephen R. Swinburne. Boyds Mills Press, 2000
Introduce children to number-related words.
Using lively photos children are then asked to identify what
they’ve learned.
Math and Literature Bibliography Gr 2
Alexander Who Used to Be
Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst. Atheneum, 1987
Over the course of a day, Alexander spends the
entire dollar his grandparents gave him.
Amanda Bean’s Amazing
Dream: A Mathematical Story by Cindy Neuschwander and Marilyn Burns. Scholastic Inc., 1998
Amanda loves to count things, but not until she
has an amazing dream does she realize that multiplication will help her count faster.
Arctic Fives Arrive by Elinor J. Pinczes. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996
A counting book in which groups of five animals
share a hilltop to view the northern lights.
Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells. Viking Press, 2000
Max and his sister, Ruby, spend their money
trying to buy Grandma the perfect gift.
Counting on Frank by Rod Clement. Gareth Stevens, 1991
A boy and his dog use mathematical concepts to estimate the length of a line from a pen and the
number of dogs he could fit into his bedroom, among
other things.
Each Orange Had 8 Slices
by Paul Giganti, Jr. Greenwillow, 1992
Readers add and multiply as they count flower
petals, cows, gumballs, and other objects and sets.
Even Steven and Odd Todd
by Kathryn Cristaldi. Cartwheel Books, 1996
The mismatched team of straight-laced Even
Steven and fun-loving Odd Todd illustrate the concepts of
even and odd.
From One to One Hundred by Teri Sloat. Dutton, 1991
Counting by ones to ten, and then by tens to a
hundred, readers count otters, houses, hot air balloons,
and other objects.
The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle. Harper, 1977
In a story introducing concepts of time, a
bad-tempered ladybug goes through a day picking fights with
everyone she meets.
I Live in Tokyo by Mari Takabayashi. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001
Follow Tokyo schoolgirl Mimiko through a
calendar year worth of fun, food, traditions, and festivities.
Inchworm and a Half by Elinor Pinczes. Houghton Mifflin Co., 2001
An introduction to measurement, told in rhyme,
with worms showing the concept of inches and
fractions of an inch.
Jelly Beans for Sale by Bruce McMillan. Scholastic, 1996
Children buy and sell jelly beans with pennies,
nickels, dimes, and quarters in an introduction to basic
units of money.
King’s Commissioners by Aileen Friedman. Scholastic, 1995
The king learns new ways to count while keeping
track of the royal commissioners.
Mama Provi and the Pot
of Rice by Sylvia Rosa-Casanova. Econo-Clad Books, 2001
Mama Provi names the ordinal numbers as she
takes food to her sick granddaughter who lives up many
flights of stairs.
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka. Viking Children’s Books, 1995
When the teacher tells her class that they can
think of almost everything as a math problem, it gets one
student really thinking.
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag. Econo-Clad Books, 1999
How can an old woman and man select one cat from
a choice of millions?
Mission: Addition by Loreen Leedy. Holiday House, 1999
Miss Prime and her pupils comically illustrate
the fun of adding.
Moira’s Birthday by Robert Munsch. Firefly paper, 1995
When Moira invites the entire school to her
birthday party, she orders hundreds of pizzas, cakes, and
other foods.
More Than One by Miriam Schlein. Greenwillow, 1996
An explanation of how the number one can be two shoes in a pair, the seven days in a week, the
twelve
eggs in a dozen, and more.
Number One, Number Fun by Kay Sproat Charao. Holiday, 1995
As a circus of farm animals tumbles through the
air and balances on high wires, readers answer questions
using addition and subtraction.
One Grain of Rice by Demi. Scholastic, 1997
As a reward for a good deed, a clever girl named
Rani asks the raja for one grain of rice, to be
doubled every day for thirty days.
One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor Pinczes. Houghton, 1993
As hungry ants head to a picnic, they arrange
and rearrange themselves in two rows of fifty, four
rows of twenty-five, and so on.
The Philharmonic Gets
Dressed by Karla Kuskin. Harper, 1982
Ninety-two men and thirteen women, all members
of an orchestra, get ready for an evening’s
performance.
A Remainder of One by Elinor Pinczes. Houghton, 1995
Joe the bug finally figures out how to line up
the twenty-five bugs in his marching squadron so
that
they’re in even groups.
Shape by Henry Pluckrose. Children’s Press, 1995
Photographs of real-world items introduce basic
shape.
Splash! by Ann Jonas. Greenwillow, 1995
As a girl’s turtle, frogs, dog, and cat jump in
and out of a pond, readers answer the question, “How many are
in my pond?”
Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto and Ed Martinez. Scott Foresman, 1996
Maria loses her mother’s ring while helping make tamales and asks her cousins to help her find it
by eating an enormous stack of twenty-four tamales.
What’s a Pair? What’s a
Dozen? by Stephen R. Swinburne. Boyds Mills Press, 2000
Illustrating numerical terms such as odd, even,
“baker’s dozen,” etc. from daily life.
17 Kings and 42
Elephants by Margaret Mahy. Dial, 1987
Rhyming verse tells how seventeen kings and
forty-two elephants make their way through the jungle on a
wild, wet night.
The 329th Friend by Margorie Weinman Sharmat. Simon, 1992
Hoping to find a friend, Emery Raccoon invites
328 strangers over for lunch, only to discover that
he’s his own best friend.
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