Children’s Literature Selections for Mathematics

Number Sense
Pat the Bunny, Dorothy Kunhardt
Baby Touch and Feel: Animals, DK
The Going-to-Bed Book, Sandra Boynton
Spot Goes to the Farm, Eric Hill
Peek-a-Boo You, Roberta Grobel Intrater
Where is Baby’s Belly Button?, Karen Katz
Dear Zoo: A Lift the Flap Book, Rod Campbell
Big Fat Hen, Keith Baker
Over in the Meadow, Ezra Jack Keats
One Duck Stuck, Phyllis Root
Ten Red Apples, Pat Hutchins
Count!, Denise Fleming
Moja Means One, Muriel Feelings
My Signing Book of Numbers, Patricia Bellan Gillen
Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On, Lois Ehlert
Olivia Counts, Ian Falconer
Henry the Fourth, Stuart J. Murphy
Just Enough Carrots, Stuart J. Murphy
The Doorbell Rang, Pat Hutchins
More, Fewer, Less, Tana Hoban
More Bugs? Less Bugs?, Donald L. Curry

Group and Categorize
Who’s Peeking, Charles Reasoner
Baby’s Zoo, Neil Ricklen
Touch and Feel Animal Colors, DK
Baby Talk, Anne Miranda
White on Black, Tana Hoban
A Pair of Socks, Stuart Murphy
Hats, Hats, Hats, Ann Morris
Shoes, Shoes, Shoes, Ann Morris
Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue?, Tana Hoban
Sorting All Sorts of Socks, Betsy Franco
Tools, Ann Morris & Ken Heyman


Number Relationships
Black on White, Tana Hoban
Black & White, Tana Hoban
Look, Look! Peter Linenthal
Ten Black Dots, Donald Crews
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
Let’s Count, Tana Hoban
Five Silly Turkeys, Salina Yoon
1-2-3 To the Zoo: A Counting Book, Eric Carle
Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree, Eileen Christelow
Ten Terrible Dinosaurs, Paul Stickland
The Hershey’s Kisses Subtraction Book, Jerry Pallotta
Feast for Ten, Cathryn Falwell
The Napping House, Audrey Wood
Ten in the Bed, Penny Dale
Monster Musical Chairs, Stuart J. Murphy
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons, Eric Litwin
Can Cockatoos Count by Twos? Hap Palmer


Patterning
Peek-a-Who?, Nina Laden
Open the Barn Door, Find a Cow, Christopher Santoro
From Head to Toe, Eric Carle
Clap Your Hands, Lorinda Bryan Cauley
Move!, Steve Jenkins
Ten Little Rabbits, Virginia Grossman
Max Found Two Sticks, Brian Pinkney
Close, Closer, Closest, Shelley Rotner
Nature’s Paintbrush, Susan Stockdale


Describe and Compare Measureable Attributes
Is it Larger? Is It Smaller? Tana Hoban
Curious George Bigger and Smaller, H. A. Rey
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Who Sank the Boat? Pamela Allen
Inch by Inch, Leo Leonni


Data Analysis
Red is Best, Kathy Stinson
Teamwork, Ann Morris
Each Orange had 8 Slices, Paul Giganti
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? Steve Jenkins
Clap Your Hands, Lorinda Bryan Cauley
Wiggle, Doreen Cronin
Freight Train, Donald Crews
Flying, Donald Crews
Giraffes Can’t Dance, Giles Andreae
Going on a Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen & Helen Oxenbury
Inside, Outside, Upside Down, Stan & Jan Berenstain
Each Peach, Pear, Plum, Janet and Allen Ahlberg
Rosie’s Walk, Pat Hutchins
“Sammy” Getting to Know Myself, Hap Palmer
“Put Your Hands Up in the Air,” Learning Basic Skills Through Music
Vol. I, Hap Palmer
“Under the Stick,” Learning Basic Skills Through Music
A Million Fish…More or Less, Patricia McKissack
Pigs in the Pantry: Fun with Math and Cooking, Amy Axelrod
The Button Box, Margarette Reid
Just a Little Bit, Ann Tompert
Math! Math! Math! Audio CD by Ron Brown


Identify and Describe Shapes
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes, Tana Hoban
Changes, Changes, Pat Hutchins
Mouse Shapes, Ellen Stoll Walsh
Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres, Tana Hoban
Color Zoo, Lois Ehlert
“Triangle, Circle and Square”, Learning Basic Skills Through Music
Vol. II, Hap Palmer


Analyze, Compare and Create Shapes
Twizzlers Shapes and Patterns, Jerry Pallotta
Architecture: Shapes, Michael Crosbie & Steve Rosenthal