Counting
1 is One - Tasha Tudor
26 Letters and 99 Cents - Tana Hoban
100 Days of Cool - Stuart Murphy (#s 1-100)
A Number of Dragons - Loreen Leedy
A Shaker's Dozen - Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen
Animal Babies: A Counting Book - Daniel Moreton
Animal Numbers - Bert Kitchen (Counting & number recog to 100)
April Rabbits - David Cleveland
Bat Jamboree - Kathi Applet
Chicken Little Count to Ten - Margaret Friskey
Emperor and the New Kite - Jane Yolen
Every Buddy Counts - Stuart Murphy
Fish Eyes - Lois Ehlert
Five Chinese Brothers - Clair Huchet Bishop
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed - Eileen Christelow
Frogs Jump - Alan Brooks
Henry the Fourth - Stuart Murphy (ordinal numbers)
How Many Can you See? - Hannah Reidy
How Many Feet in the Bed? - Diane Johnston Ham
How Many Hippos?: A Mix-And-Match Counting Book - Muff Singer
How Many Snails? A Counting Book - Paul Giganti, Jr.
Jack the Builder - Stuart Murphy (adding on)
Roman Numerals - David A. Adler
Seven Blind Mice - Ed Young
Seven Diving Ducks - Margaret Friskey
Seven Silly Eaters - Mary Ann Hoberman
Sheep Asleep - Leaping Lizards - Stuart Murphy (counting by 5s and
10s)
Little Quack - Lauren Thompson
Mouse by Mouse: A Counting Adventure - Julia Noonan
Mouse Trail - Mary Octavia Davis
Number Ideas Through Pictures - Mannis Charosh
Number One, Number Fun - Kay Chorao
Numbers (The) - Monique Felix
One...Two... Three... Sassafrass - Stuart Murphy
One Green Mosquito Tree - Jernigan Gisela
One Hungry Monster - Susan Heyboer O'Keefe
One Lonely Seahorse - Joost Elffers
Pigs From 1 to 10 - Arthur Geisert
Right Number of Elephants- Jeff Sheppard
Gloria Rothstein
Six Dinner Sid - Inga Moore
Splash - Ann Jonas
Ten Sly Piranhas - William Wise
When Sheep Cannot Sleep - Satoshi Kitamura
Who Invited You? - Candace Fleming
Shapes
Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes - Stuart Murphy
Circus Shapes - Stuart Murphy (recognizing shapes)
Picture Pie - Ed Emberley
Picture Pie 2 - Ed Emberley
Windows, Rings and Grapes – A Look at Different Shapes – Brian
Cleary
Sorting/Patterning
3 Little Firefighters - Stuart Murphy (sorting)
A Pair of Socks - Stuart Murphy (matching sets)
A-b-a-b-a – A Book of Pattern Play – Brian Cleary
Beep, Beep...Vroom, Vroom - Stuart Murphy (patterns, sorting)
Changes, Changes - Pat Hutchins (visual and auditory patterns)
More or Less a Mess - Sheila Keenan (sorting, categorizing)
Only One - Marc Harshman (sets)
Patterns in Peru - Cindy Neuschwander
Rabbits Pajama Party - Stuart Murphy (sequencing)
Seaweed Soup - Stuart Murphy (matching sets)
Days/Weeks
Clever Cat - Peter Collington
Cookie's Week - Cindy Ward
Day by Day a Week Goes Round - Carol Diggory Shields
Dinosaur Days - Linda Manning
First Things First - Charlotte Voak
Happy Birthday, Word Bird - Jane Belk Moncure
Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Coat - Catherine Ann Cullen
Oliver's Vegetables - Vivian French
On Friday Something Funny Happened - John Prater
One Lighthouse, One Moon - Anita Lobel
Three Two One Day - Debbie Discoll (maybe Driscoll)
Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
What a Wonderful Day to be a Cow - Carolyn Lesser
Calendar
Jessie Bear, What Will You Wear? - Nancy White Carlstrom
My Grandmother's Clock - Geraldine McCaughrean (clocks and
calendars)
Pepper's Journal - Stuart Murphy (calendar)
Months
A Busy Year - Leo Lionni
A Red Wagon Year - Kathi Appelt
A Year of Beasts - Ashley Wolff
A Year for Kiko - Ferida Wolff
All Year Long - Nancy Tafuri
Calendarbears: A Book of Months - Kathleen Hague
Caps, Hats, Socks and Mittens - Louise W. Borden
Chicken Soup with Rice - Maurice Sendak
How Do You Say it Today, Jesse Bear? - Nancy White Carlstrom
Jump for Joy: A Book of Months - Megan Halsey
Month By Month A Year Goes Round - Carol Diggory Shields
What Will the Weather Be Like Today? - Paul Rogers
When the Box is Full - Patricia Lillie
Year at Maple Hill Farm - Alice Provensen
Addition/Subtraction
12 Ways to Get to 11 - Eve Merriam
A High-Fiving Gift for Mom - Judy Bradbury (includes $ and skip
counting)
Action of Subtraction – Brian Cleary
Animals On Board - Stuart Murphy
Each Orange Has 8 Slices - Paul Giganti
Double Bubble Trouble - Judy Bradbury (counting by 2s)
Double the Ducks - Stuart Murphy (doubling numbers)
Elevator Magic - Stuart Murphy (subtraction)
Family Minus - Fernando Krahn
Five Silly Fishermen - Roberta Edwards
Grapes of Math - Greg Tang (moving into multiplication)
Great Take-Away - Louise Mathews
Jack the Builder - Stuart Murphy (adding on)
Leaping Lizards - Stuart Murphy (counting by 5s and 10s)
Mall Mania - Stuart Murphy (addition strategies)
Math-Terpieces - Greg Tang
Math Fables - Greg Tang
Math for All Season - Greg Tang
Mission Addition - Loreen Leedy
Mission of Addition – Brian Cleary
Monster Musical Chairs - Stuart Murphy (subtracting by 1)
Mouse Count - Ellen Stoll Walsh
Mystery of the Farmer's Three Fives - Margaret Friskey
Next Stop Grand Central - Maira Kalman
Numberline Lane series - Fiona Reynolds
One Carton of OOPS - Judy Bradbury
One More Bunny - Rick Walton
Panda Math - Ann Whitehead Nagda (subtraction)
Ready, Set, Hop - Stuart Murphy
Safari Park - Stuart Murphy
Sea Sums - Joy Hulme
Shark Swimathon - Stuart Murphy (subtract 2 digit numbers)
Spunky Monkeys on Parade - Stuart Murphy (counting by 2s, 3s, 4s)
Stay in Line - Teddy Slater
Tally O'Malley - Stuart Murphy
This is the House That Jack Built - Liz Underhill
Operations
Animals on Board - Stuart Murphy
Chugga Chugga Choo Choo - Kevin Lewis
More, Fewer. Less - Tana Hoban (operations)
Splash! - Ann Jonas
Tens, Hundreds, Place Value
100 Days of Cool - Stuart Murphy
12 Ways to Get to 11 - Eve Merriam
512 Ant on Sullivan Street - Carol Losi (doubling)
98, 99, 100. Ready or Not, Here I Come - Teddy Slater (skip counting
of various numbers)
Base Five (Young Math) - David Adler
Binary Numbers - Clyde Watson
Counting Systems - Marnie Luce
Earth Day - Hooray! - Stuart Murphy
Fair Bear Share - Stuart Murphy (regrouping)
How Did Numbers Begin? - Mindel Sitomer (history of numbers)
King's Chessboard - David Birch
Millions of Cats - Wanda Gag
Monster Math Picnic - Grace Maccarone
Mouse Count - Ellen Stoll Walsh
One Hundred Hungry Ants - Elinor Pinczes
One Hundred is a Family - Pat Munoz Ryan
Roman Numerals I to MM - Athur Geisart
Senefer: A Young Genius in Old Egypt - Beatrice Lumpkin (addition,
multiplication, number bases)
Tea for Ten - Lena Anderson
Ten Friends - Bruce Goldstone
Ten Monkey Jamboree - Dianne Ochiltree
Two Hundred Rabbits - Lonzo Anderson
Odd/Even
Even Steven and Odd Todd - Kathryn Cristaldi
Missing Mittens - Stuart Murphy (odd and even)
My Even Day – Doris Fisher
Number Ideas Through Pictures - Mannis
Charosh (even,square/triangular numbers)
Ocean Counting: Odd Numbers - Jerry Pallotta
Odds and Evens - Thomas O'Brien
One Odd Day - Doris Fisher (odd and even numbers)
Underwater Counting: Even Numbers - Jerry Pallotta
Zero
A Place for Zero - Angeline Sparagna Lopresti
Zero is not Nothing - Mindel and Harry Sitomer
Measurements/Mapping
Blast Off of Earth!: A Look at Geography - Loreen Leedy
Bug Dance - Stuart Murphy (directions)
Dear Benjamin Banneker - Brian Pinkney (land surveyor)
Felix Explores Planet Earth - Annette Langen
How Big Is a Foot? - Rolf Myller
How Little and How Much: A Book about Scales - Franklyn M.
Branley
How Much and How Many - Jeanne Bendick
How Tall, How Short, How Faraway - David Adler
If You Hopped Like a Frog - David M. Schwartz
Inch By Inch - Leo Lionni
Inchworm and a Half - Elinor J. Pinczes
How Long or How Wide? – Brian Cleary
Learning About Measurement - Sylvia Horne
Librarian Who Measured the Earth - Kevin Hawkes
Long and Short of Measurements - Vicki Cobb
Mapping Penny's World - Loreen Leedy
Many Moons - James Thurber (size, distance)
Measuring Penny - Loreen Leedy
Mighty Maddie - Stuart Murphy (comparing weights)
Millions to Measure - David M. Schwartz
On the Scale, a Weighty Tale – Brian Cleary
Pigs in the Pantry - Amy Axelrod (measuring and following
directions)
Polly's Pen Pal - Stuart Murphy (metrics)
Room for Ripley - Stuart Murphy (capacity)
So Big! My First Measuring Book - Keith Falkner
Super Saturday Sand Castle - Stuart Murphy (measuring)
Sven's Bridge - Anita Lobel
Too Many Cooks - Andrea Buckless
Treasure Map - Stuart Murphy (mapping)
Weighing & Balancing - Jane Jonas Srivastava
What's Up With That Cup? - Sheila Keenan
Where's My Teddy? - Jez Albourough
Who Put the Pepper in the Pot? - Joanna Cole
Comparing/Estimating
Actual Size - Steve Jenkins
Averages - Jane Jonas Srivastava
Best Bug Parade - Stuart Murphy
Betcha! - Stuart Murphy
Bigger and Smaller - Robert Froman
Biggest, Strongest, Fastest - Steve Jenkins
Counting on Frank - Rod Clement
Dave's Down to Earth Rock Shop - Stuart Murphy (classifying)
Estimation - Charles Linn
Equal Shmequal - Virginia Kroll
Fattest, Tallest, Biggest Snowman Ever - Bettina Ling
Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest - Steve Jenkins
How Much, How Many, How Far..... - Helen Nolan
How Tall, How Short, How Far Away - David Adler
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie - Alison Jackson
If You Hopped Like a Frog - David Schwartz
Is the Blue Whale the Biggest Thing Ever? - Robert Wells
Jim and the Beanstalk - Raymond Briggs
Just Enough Carrots - Stuart Murphy
Long, Short, High, Low, Thin, Wide - James T. Fey
Mice Twice - Joseph Low (size, perspective)
Mighty Maddie - Stuart Murphy (comparing weight)
More or Less - Stuart Murphy (comparing numbers)
Much Bigger Than Martin - Steven Kellogg
Slower Than a Snail - Anne Schreiber
So Big! My First Measuring Book - Keith Falkner
Tallest, Shortest, Longest, Greenest.... - Keith Falkner
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Simms Taback
Twice Upon a Time - Irwin Shapiro
What's Faster Than a Speeding Cheetah? - Robert Wells
What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew? - Robert Wells
What's Up With That Cup? - Sheila Keenan
Time
Bats Around the Clock - Kathi Appelt
Bunny Day: Telling Time From Breakfast to Bedtime - Rick Walton
Chimp Math - Ann Whitehead Nagda (time)
Game Time! - Stuart Murphy (time)
Get Up and Go - Stuart Murphy (timelines)
Grouchy Ladybug - Eric Carle (clocks and calendars)
It's About Time - Stuart Murphy (hours)
Rodeo Time - Stuart Murphy (reading a schedule)
Time for Friends - Luke Holzmann
What Time is it Mr. Crocodile? - Judy Sierra
Money
26 Letters and 99 Cents - Tana Hoban
A Bargain for Frances - Russell Hoban
A Day's Work - Eve Bunting (value of work)
A Kid's Guide to Managing Money - Joy Wilt
A Quarter From the Tooth Fairy - Caren Holtzman
Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday - Judith Viorst (money
management)
Arthur's Funny Money - Lillian Hoban
Benny's Pennies - Pat Brisson
Big Buck Adventure - Shelley Gill
Bunny Money - Rosemary Wells
Ginger & Pickles - Beatrix Potter (credit, borrowing, running
business)
How Much is that Guinea Pig in the Window? - Joanne Rocklin
How to Get Fabulously Rich - Thomas Rockwell (chapter book)
If You Made a Million - David Schwartz
Irene and the Big Fine Nickel - Irene Smalls
Lunch Line - Karen Berman Nagel
Make Four Million Dollars by Next Thursday - Stephen Manes
(chapter book)
Making Sense of Money - Vicki Cobb
Math Man - Teri Daniels (grocery store math story)
Monster Money - Penny Maccarone
Monster Money Book - Loreen Leedy
Money Tree - Sarah Stewart
Money Troubles - Bill Cosby Little Bill series
Mr. Monopoly's Amusement Park, A Math Adventure - Jackie
Glassman
No Small Change - John Luksetich (money plus greater than
concepts)
One Bright Penny - Geraldine McCaughrean
Penny Pot - Stuart Murphy (coin combinations)
Pigs Will Be Pigs - Amy Axelrod (money)
Slugger's Car Wash - Stuart Murphy (dollars and cents)
Tight Times - Barbara Shook Hazen (dad loses job)
Toothpaste Millionaire - Jean Merrill
Multiplication
512 Ant on Sullivan Street - Carol Losi (doubling)
98, 99, 100. Ready or Not, Here I Come - Teddy Slater (skip counting
of various numbers)
Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream - Cindy Neuschwander
(multiplication as fast counting)
Arctic Fives Arrive - Elinor Pinczes (skip counting by 5s)
Building Tables on Tables: A Book about Multiplication - John V.
Trivett
Bunches of Bunnies - Louise Mathews (intro to multiplication)
Double the Ducks - Stuart Murphy (doubling)
Elsie Times Eight - Natalie Babbitt
Grapes of Math - Greg Tang (moving into multiplication)
Henry and the Boy Who Thought Fleas Were Numbers - Marjorie
Kaplan (multiplication tables)
Just Add Fun - Joann Rocklin (multiplication)
King's Commissioners - Aileen Friedman (multiplication, skip
counting)
Math Appeal - Greg Tang (grouping and skip counting)
Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpilstiltskin - Pam Calvert
One Hundred Hungry Ants - Elinor Pinczes
Senefer: A Young Genius in Old Egypt - Beatrice Lumpkin (addition,
multiplication)
Socrates and the Three Little Pigs - Mitsumasa Anno (advanced, but
use for multiplication, skip counting)
Spunky Monkeys on Parade - Stuart Murphy (counting by 2s, 3s, 4s)
Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do - Stuart Murphy (intro to
multiplication)
Two Ways to Count to Ten - Ruby Dee
Division
A Remainder of One - Elinor Pinczes (division, factors)
Cheetah Math - Ann Whitehead Nagda (division)
Divide and Ride - Stuart Murphy (division)
Doorbell Rang - Pat Hutchins (intro to division)
Great Divide: A Mathematical Marathon - Dayle Ann Dodds (halving)
Greatest Guessing Game: A Book about Dividing - Robert Froman
One Hungry Cat - Joann Rocklin (division)
Rabbit and Hare Divide an Apple - Harriet Ziefert
Spaghetti and Meatballs for All - Marilyn Burns (division)
Decimals
Calculator Mania - Planet Dexter editors (decimals)
Rounding
Coyotes All Around - Stuart Murphy (rounding)
Square Numbers
My Full Moon is Square - Elinor Pinczes (intro to square numbers)
Sea Squares - Joy Hulme (squaring)
Fractions
Apple Fractions - Jerry Pallotta
Doggone Lemonade Stand - Judy Bradbury (fractions)
Each Orange Has 8 Slices - Paul Giganti (addition, subtraction,
division)
Eating Fractions - Bruce McMillan (fractions)
Everything is Coming up Fractions - John Bradford
Fraction Action - Loreen Leedy (fractions)
Fraction Fun - David Adler
Fractions are Parts of Things - J. Richard Dennis
Fractions Jugglers - Ruth Alexander Bell (fractions up to 12 so easier
to understand)
Full House: An Invitation to Fractions - Dayle Ann Dodds - doubling
and fractions
Give Me Half - Stuart Murphy (fractions)
Grandfather Tang's Story - Ann Tompert (fractions, tangrams,
geometry)
Grizzly Gazette - Stuart Murphy (fractions)
Jump, Kangaroo, Jump - Stuart Murphy (fractions)
My Half Day – Doris Fisher
One Hungry Cat - Joann Rocklin (division, fractions)
Piece = Part = Portion - Scott Gifford (fractions, decimals, percents)
Pizza Math: How Do Octopi Eat Pizza Pie (I Love Math) - Time Life
Books (fractions)
Polar Bear Math - Ann Whitehead Nagda (fractions)
Working With Fractions - David A. Adler - fractions through pictures
Zoo Fair Shares - Patricia Whitehouse (portions, younger kids)
Zoo Math: Case of the Missing Zebra Stripes (I Love Math) - Time
Life Books
Number Families
Number Families - Jane Srivastava (number series)
Roman Numerals - David A. Adler
Thirteen - Remy Charlip
This is 4: The Idea of a Number - Arthur Razzell
What's a Pair? What's a Dozen? - Stephen R. Swinburne
Negative Numbers
Less than Nothing is Really Something - Robert Froman
Less Than Zero - Stuart Murphy ($, graphing, negative numbers)
Large Numbers, Exponents, Infinity
512 Ants on Sullivan Street - Carol A. Losi (doubling exponentially)
Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar - Masaichiro Anno (size,
perspective, counting, nesting, factorials)
Arm in Arm - Remy Charlip (paradox, infinite loops)
Is the Blue Whale the Biggest Thing Ever? - Robert Wells (why we
have lg. numbers)
Hooray for Me - Remy Charlip (relationship, nesting)
How Much is a Million? - Frank Schwartz
Infinity, What Is It? - Marnie Luce
King's Chessboard - David Birch (doubling exponentially)
Math Curse - Jon Scieszka
Millions of Cats - Wanda Gag
On Beyond a Million - David Schwartz (lg. numbers, exponents)
One Grain of Rice - Demi (doubling exponentially)