If there is a children’s book that you use in your classroom that connects to any
performance tasks or is related to math literacy, please forward the
book title and author to the Instructional Coaches, so that we may add it to this list.
Books are not limited to the grade level indicated, please feel free to use any of the books listed in your
classroom. For example: Ed Emberly’s Picture Pie can be used across the grades because the fraction
representations are appropriate for all students.
K – 2 Book Titles
A Number of Animals – Christopher Wormell
A Three Hat Day – Laura Geringer
Aldo Ice Cream - Johanna Hurwitz
All About Owls – Jim Arnosky
Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Is For Everyone - Keith Elliot
Greenberg
Benny’s Pennies – Pat Brisson
Bicycle Man - Allen Say
Bicycle Race - Donald Crews
Counting Crocodiles – Judy Sierra
Counting on Calico – Phyllis Limbacher Tildes
Cross-Country Cat - Mary Calhoun
Curious George Goes To The Ice Cream Shop -
Margaret Rey
Dinner at the Panda Palace – Stephanie Calmenson
Frog’s Jump: A Counting Book - Steven Kellogg
From Head to Toe – Eric Carle
High-Wire Henry - Mary Calhoun
Henry the Sailor Cat - Mary Calhoun
Horatio - Eleanor Clymer's
Horatio’s Birthday - Eleanor Clymer's
Horatio Goes to the Country - Eleanor Clymer's
Horatio Solves a Mystery - Eleanor Clymer's
Hot-Air Henry - Mary Calhoun
In the Small, Small Pond – Denise Flemming
Louise Builds a Boat – Louise Pfanner
Louise Builds a House – Louise Pfanner
Mrs. Fitz’s Flamingoes – Kevin McCloskey
Musical Chairs and Dancing Bears – Joanne Rocklin
Ocean Parade – Patricia Maccarthy
1 Hunter – Pat Hutchins
1, 2, 3 To the Zoo: A Counting Book – Eric Carle
One Gorilla – Atsuko Morozumi
One Hundred Hungry Ants - Elinor Pinczes
One Monday Morning – Uri Shulevitz
Only One – Marc Harshman
Opt: An Illusionary Tale – Arline and Joseph Baum
Owl Babies - Martin Waddell
P. Bear’s New Year’s Eve Party – Paul Owen Lewis
Peter’s Pockets – Eve Rice
Pigs Will Be Pigs – Amy Axelrod
Roster’s Off to See the World – Eric Carle
Sea Squares – Joy Hulme
17 Kings and 42 Elephants – Margaret Mahy
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes – Tana Hoban
Six Dinner Sid – Inga Moore
Tale of a Tadpole – Karen Wallace
Ten Black Dots – Donald Crews
10 for Dinner – Jo Ellen Bogart
Ten Little Monkeys: A Counting Storybook – Keith
Faulkner
Ten Little Rabbits – Virginia Grossman and Sylvia Long
Ten Sly Piranhas – William Wise
The Button Box – Margarette Reid
The Grouchy Ladybug – Eric Carle
The House – Monique Felix
The Midnight Farm – Reeve Lindberg
The M & M’s Brand Counting Book – Barbara McGrath
The Napping House – Audrey Wood
The Numbers – Monique Felix
The Paper Crane - Molly Garrett Bang
The Shapes Game – Paul Rogers
Twelve Ways to Get to 11 – Eve Merriam
Two of Everything – Lily Toy Hong
Two Ways to Count to Ten – Retold by Ruby Dee
What Comes in 2s, 3s & 4s - Suzanne Aker
3 – 5 Book Titles
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A Cloak for the Dreamer – Aileen Friedman
Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday – Judith
Viorst
Algebra Thinking, First Experiences - Creative
Publications
All in a Day – Mitsumasa Anno
Anno’s Counting House - Mitsumasa Anno
Anno’s Hat Tricks - Mitsumasa Anno and Akihiro
Nozaki
Anno’s Magical ABS: An Anamorphic Alphabet -
Masaichiro and Misumasa Anno
Anno’s Magic Seeds – Mitsumasa Anno
Anno’s Math Games I, II, & III – Mitsumasa Anno
Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar – Masaichiro and
Misumasa Anno
Anno’s Journey – Mitsumasa Anno
Anno’s USA – Mitsumasa Anno
Building Toothpick Bridges - Jeanne Pollard
Eight Hands Round – Ann Whitford Paul
From Home Runs to Housing Costs Data Resource for
Teaching Statistics - Dale
Seymour Publications
Grandfather Tang’s Story - Ann Tompert
How Big is a Foot? – Rolf Myller
How Many Feet in the Bed? – Diane Johnston Hamm
How Much Is A Million? - David Schwartz
If You Look Around You – Fulvio Testa
Math Curse – Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
Picture Pie (1 & 2) – Ed Emberly
Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi: A Math
Adventure - Cindy Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math
Adventure – Cindy Neuschwander
Squares - Catherine Sheldrick Ross
The Doorbell Rang – Pat Hutchins
The Fine Round Cakes – Arnica Esterl
The Greedy Triangle - Marilyn Burns
The Half-Birthday Party – Charlotte Pomerantz
The History of Counting – Denise Schmandt-Besserat
The King’s Commissioners – Aileen Friedman
The Lady and the Tiger - Frank Stockton's (Short Story)
The Sign of the Beaver - Jean Craighead George.
The Tangram Magician – Lisa Ernst Campbell and Lee
Ernst
Triangles and Pyramids - Sally Morgan.
Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
6 – 8 Book Titles
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Algebra Thinking, First Experiences - Creative
Publications
Anno’s Magic Seeds – Masaichiro and Misumasa Anno
Anno’s Math Games I, II, & III – Masaichiro and
Misumasa Anno
Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar – Masaichiro and
Misumasa Anno
Anno’s Journey – Masaichiro and Misumasa Anno
Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi: A Math
Adventure - Cindy Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math
Adventure – Cindy Neuschwander
Math Curse – Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives
of Great Mathematicians – Luetta Reimer and
Wilbert Reimer
Statistics and Probability Grades 5-8, - Mrye Shireman
The History of Counting – Denise Schmandt-Besserat
The Lady and the Tiger - Frank Stockton's (Short Story)
Trouble River - Betsy Byars