Ontario Association of Mathematics Educators (OAME)
List of Children’s Picture Books Related to Geometry and Spatial Sense (K-3)
Author
Title
Publisher
ISBN
Properties of Geometric Shapes and Figures
Adler, David
Baker, Alan
Barner, Bob
Birmingham,
David
Burke, Jennifer
Brown, Margaret
Wise
Browne, Anthony
Shape Up!
Brown Rabbit’s Shape Book
Space Race
Look Twice
Holiday House; 2000
Kingfisher;1999
Bantam
Tarquin, 1991
0823416380
0753452553
0553375679
0906212863
Rectangles
The Important Book.
0516230778
0-06-443227-0
Burns, Marilyn
Crosbie, Michael
J.,
Crosbie, Michael
J.,
Carle, Eric
Dotlich, Rebecca
Kai and Ferrari,
Maria
Dotlich, Rebecca
Kai and Ferrari,
Maria
Dodds, Dayle
Ann
Falwell, Cathryn
Eberts, Marjorie
The Greedy Triangle
Arches to Zigzags: An
Architecture ABC
Architecture Shapes
Scholastic
Harper Trophy,
1949/1977
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
(BYR); 1 American
edition 2003
Scholastic, Inc. 1994
Harry N Abrams; 2000
John Wiley & Sons; 1995
0471143669
My Very First Book of Shapes
What is Round?
New York: Crowell, 1974
Scholastic
0694000132
043915944X
What is Square?
Scholastic
0439159458X
The Shape of Things
Candlewick 1996
1564026981
Shape Space
Pancakes, Crackers and Pizzas
A Book of Shapes
Color Farm
Clarion
Scholastic
0395613051
0516420631
New York, NY: J. B.
Lippincott, 1990
Scholastic
Mondo Publishing; 1996)
Bradbury
Houghton Mifflin; Reprint
edition, 2001
Brown Little
0-397-32440-5
Harcourt
0152000917
HarperTrophy; Reprint
edition 2001
Greenwillow
Simon & Schuster
Children's Publishing;
0064437574
Ehlert, Lois
Emberly, Ed
Fox, Mem
Goble, Paul
Greene, Rhona
Gowler
Grifalconi, Ann
The Shapes Game
Henke, Kevin
The Wing on a Flea
The Straight Line Wonder
Star Boy
When a Line Bends . . . . A
Shape Begins
The village of Round and
Square Houses
Circles and Squares
Everywhere
Circle Dogs
Hoban, Tana
Hoban, Tana
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes
Circles, Triangles and Squares
Grover, Max
0374367647
0590489917
0810942186
0316234877
1572552050
0689714998
0618152415
0316328626
0688147402
0027448304
Hoban, Tana
Hoban, Tana
Hoban, Tana
Hutchins, Pat
Isaacson, Philip
Johnson,
Crockett
Klove, Lars
Kohn, Bernice
Lily, Melinda
Cubes, Cylinders, Spheres
So Many Circles, So Many
Squares
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes
Changes, Changes
Round Building, Square
Buildings and Buildings That
Wiggle Like a Fish
Harold and the Purple Crayon
I See a Sign
Everything has a Shape and
Everything has a Size
Shapes for Lunch! (Mini Bites)
MacCarone,
Grace
MacDonald, Suse
Mills, Andy
Moncure, Jane
Murphy, Stuart
Three Pigs, One Wolf and
Seven Magic Shapes
Sea Shapes
Shapesville
Four Magic Boxes
Captain Invincible and the
Space Shapes
Murphy, Stuart
Circus Shapes
Murphy, Stuart
Musgove,
Margaret &
Carins, Julia
Piggot, Dawn
Podendorf, Illa
Let’s Fly a Kite
The Spider Weaver: A Legend
of Kente Cloth
Rau, Dana
Read, Margarette
Gregory and the Magic Line
Shapes, Sides, Curves, and
Corners
Circle City
The Button Box
Reynolds, Peter
The Dot
Roemer, Heidi
Come to my Party and Other
Shape Poems
Squares
(non-fiction resource)
There’s a Square: A Book
About Shapes
The Amazing Book of Shapes
Ross, Catherine
Sheldrick
Serfozo, Mary
Sharman, Lydia
Thong, Roseanne Round is a Mooncake
Wegman, William Square, Triangle, Circle
1974
Greenwillow
Greenwillow
0688153259
0688151655
HarperTrophy; 1996
The Macmillan Company,
1971
Knopf Books for Young
Readers; 2001
0688147402
0-02-745870-9
HarperTrophy; 1981
0064430227
Aladdin
Englewoods Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1964
Price Stern Sloan; Board
edition;1998
Scholastic
0689808003
0-13-293548-1
Voyager Books;1998
Gurze Books; 2003
Childs World; 1978)
HarperTrophy; 2001
0152017003
0936077476
089565007X
0064467317
Harper Collins Publishers
(MathStart), 1998
HarperTrophy; 2000
New York: NY: Blue Sky
Press, 2001
0-06-446713-9
Dolphin Book Co.; 2004
Children’s Press
1842552783
0516015559
Scholastic
Puffin Books; Reprint
edition;1995
Candlewick Press (MA);
2003
Henry Holt & Co.
0516-26542-3
0140554955
Kids Can Press; 1996
1-55074-273-6
Scholastic
0590544268
Richmond Hill, ON:
Scholastic Canada, Ltd,
1994
Chronicle Books
Hyperion; Board edition
0-590-24306-3
0394893824
0843178221
0590-30857-2
0064467376
0-590-09898-9
0763619612
0805066209
0811826767
0786801042
Wynne-Jones,
Tim
Ziefert, Harriet
Architect of the Moon
Squarehead
1995)
Groundwood Books;
1998
Houghton Mifflin/ Walter
Lorraine Books; 2001)
0888991509
0618083782
Geometric Relationships
Bourgeois,
Paulette
Brumbeau, Jeff
Dr. Seuss
Oma’s Quilt
Kids Can Press;2001
1-55337-625-0
The Quiltmaker’s Gift
The Shape of Me
1570251991
0679886311
Ernst, Lisa
Campbell
Falwell, Cathryn
Friedman, Aileen
Hoban, Tana
Hoban, Tana
Jonas, Ann
MacCarone,
Grace
Pallotta, Jeremy
Paul, Ann
Whitford
Paul, Ann
Whitford
Pilegard, Virginia
Walton (2000)
Sam Johnson and the Blue
Ribbon Quilt
Shape Space
A Cloak for the Dreamer
Look Again
Look, Look, Look
The Quilt
The Silly Story of Goldie Locks
and the Three Squares
The Icky Shape Book
Eight Hands Round: A
Patchwork Alphabet
The Seasons Sewn: A Year in
Patchwork.
The Warlord’s Puzzle
Scholastic; 2001
Random House Books
for Young Readers;
Board edition, 1997
William Morrow, 1983
Clarion. 1992
Scholastic, Inc.;1994
S & S; 1971
Greenwillow
Greenwillow
Scholastic, Inc., 1996
0395613051
0590489879
0027440508
Scholastic; 2004)
Harper Collins
Publishers, 1991.
Harcourt, Inc., 1996.
0439389186
0-06-443464-8
1-56554495-1
Polacco, Patricia
Smucker,
Barbara
Smucker,
Barbara
Steele, Margaret
The Keeping Quilt
Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt
Gretna, Luisiana
Pelican Publishing
Company, Inc.
Simon & Schuster, 1988
Stoddart Publishing Co.
Limited, 1995.
Stoddart Kids, 1998
Moca Store; Board
edition; 1997
New York, NY: Dial
Books for Young
Readers, 1987
New York, NY: Crown
Publishers, Inc., 1990
0914357506
Selina and the Shoo-Fly Pie
Testa, Fulvio.
The Art of Shapes: For Children
and Adults
If You Look Around You
Tompert, Ann
Grandfather Tang’s Story
0688015174
0140553088
0-590-54344-x
0-15-202107-8
0671649639
0-7737-5837-2
0-7737-3018-4
0803704321
0517885581
Location and Movement
Birmingham,
David
Ernst, Lisa
Campbell (2004)
“M” is for Mirror
Tarquin, 1988
0906212669
The Turn-Around, Upside-Down
Alphabet Book
0-689-85685-7
Fanelli, Sara
Hartman, Gail
My Map Book
As The Crow Flies: A First Book
New York: Simon &
Schuster Books for
Young Readers
HarperCollins; 1995
Aladdin;1993
0060264551
0689717628
of Maps
Wheeling and Whirling Around
Book
All About Where
Look Up, Look Down
Over, Under and Through
Hindley, Judy
Hoban, Tana
Hoban, Tana
Hoban, Tana
Hutchins, Pat
Jonas, Ann
Jonas, Ann
Leedy, Loreen
McMillan, Bruce
Walter, Marion
Walter, Marion
Rosie’s Walk
Reflections
Round Trip
Mapping Penny’s World
Mouse Views What the Class
Pet Saw
The Second Magic Mirror Book
The Mirror Puzzle Book
Candlewick
1564024903
Greenwillow; 1991
Greenwillow;1992
Aladdin; Reprint edition;
1987
Aladdin;1971
Greenwillow Books, 1987
Scholastic 1990
Owlet Paperbacks; 2003
Holiday House
0688096972
0688105785
0689711115
Scholastic Ltd: 1984*
Tarquin Publications,
1985.
0590703900
0 906212 39 1
0020437501
0688061400
0688099866
0805072624
082341132X
The titles listed above have explicit connections to Geometry and Spatial Sense. Using other
picture books to provide students with more experience with geometry concepts in other contexts
adds depth to their understanding of the concepts. For example:
1. Students can use a pattern book such as The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown (Harper
Trophy, 1949/1977 0-06-443227-0) to make a book about the important properties of shapes.
2. Stories such as The Lost Button in the book Frog and Toad Are Friends (The Lost Button) by
Arnold Loebel (Scholastic, Inc., 1970 0-590-04529-6) and Big Bad Wolf by Claire Masurel, Melissa
Iwai (Cartwheel Books, 2002, 0439282438) provide opportunities for students to use attributes
and properties in descriptions.
3. While the language of properties and attributes are not used, students study “characteristics” of
matter such as water and air in the Science and Technology curriculum. Non-fiction texts such
as A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick (Scholastic (April 1, 1997)
ISBN: 0590221973) can help students develop understanding of properties.
Ontario Association of Mathematics Educators (OAME)
List of Children’s Picture Books Related to Geometry and Spatial Sense (K-3)
Teacher’s Resources – Mathematics and Children’s Picture Books
Author & (Date)
Burns, Marilyn
Title
Math and Literature (K-3) Book
One*
Burns, Marilyn and
Sheffield, Stephanie
Burns, Marilyn and
Sheffield, Stephanie
Confer, Chris
Math and Literature, Grades K-1
Math and Literature, Grades 2-3
Math by All Means: Geometry,
Grades 1-2
Lessons based on the book, A
Cloak for a Dreamer
Publisher
Sausolito, CA:
Math Solutions
Publications; 1992
Math Solutions
Publications;2004
Math Solutions
Publications;2004
Math Solutions
Publications
ISBN
0201-87201-3
0-941355-66-7
0-941355-67-5
0-941355-08-X
House, Peggy A.
Connecting Mathematics Across
the Curriculum
NCTM 1995
0-87353-394-1
Hurst, Carol Otis and
Otis, Rebecca
SRA Media
Kallevig, Christine
Petrell
Lima, Carolyn W. and
Lima, John A. (19898)
Peterson, Jamee
Picturing Math
SRA 1996
0-02-687367-2
Fold Along Stories: Quick and
Easy Origami Tales for Beginners
A to Zoo, Subect Access to
Children’s Picture Books
Math and Non-Fiction,
K-2
Math by All Means: Geometry,
Grades 3-4
One lesson is based on the book,
The Greedy Triangle
Tan and the Shape Changer
Teeny Visits Shapeland
Integrating Children’s Literature
and Mathematics in the
Classroom
Exploring Mathematics through
Literature: Articles and lessons
for prekindergarten through grade
8
Wonderful World of Mathematics:
A critically annotated list of
children’s books in mathematics
How to use children’s literature to
teach mathematics
It’s the Story That Counts
Storytime Ink
International; 2001
New York: R. R.
Bowker
Math Solutions
Publications; 2004
Sausolito, CA: Math
Solutions
Publications;
0962876992
Wright Group
0322083427
0322083354
0807735647
Read Any Good Math Lately?
Rectanus, Cheryl
Round the Rug Math
Schiro, Michael
Thiessen, Diane
Thiessen, Diane and
Matthias, Margaret
Welchman-Tischler,
Rosamond
Whitlin, David J., and
Wilde, Sandra
Whitlin, David J., and
Wilde, Sandra
Teachers College
Press
0-941355-61-6
0-941355-10-1
Reston, VA: NCTM;
2004
0-87353-439-5
Reston, VA: NCTM;
1998 ( second
edition)
Reston, VA: NCTM;
1992
Heinemann 1995
0-87353-439-5
Heinemann 1992
0-435-08334-1
0-87353-349-6
0-435-08369-4