| ADD/SUBTRACT | AUTHOR | COMMENTS |
| 12 Ways to Get to 11 | Merriam | Counting, adding different items |
| A Frog in the Bog | Wilson & Rankin | Changes add & subtract frog size |
| Centipede's 100 Shoes | Ross | Add/subtract
to 100 Webpage |
| Chrysanthemum | Henkes | Adding
up letters in your name |
| Five Little Ducks | Beck | Counting; "less one" |
| Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed | Christelow | Subtraction Webpage Webpage |
| Mouse Count | Walsh | Count forwards/backwards; problem solving; see TCM Nov 2006 pp 212-213 |
| One Lonely Seahorse | Freymann & Elffers | Grouping to count |
| One, Two, Three, Jump! | Lively & Ormerod | Counting to three |
| Six Brave Explorers | Moerbeek | Subtraction; pop-up book |
| Ten Apples Up On Top | LeSieg | Webpage |
| Ten Bears in My Bed (oop) | Mack | Subtraction from 10 |
| The Mitten | Brett | Ukranian
folktale Activity page |
| COUNTING | AUTHOR | COMMENTS |
| 1, 2, 3, to the Zoo! | Carle | Counting |
| 1, 2, I Love You! | Schertle & McCully | Count to 10 and back; find tagalong mice on each page |
| 12 Ways to Get to 11 | Merriam | Counting, adding different items |
| The Ants Go Marching | Beal
& Hagan Luders McCord |
|
| The April Rabbits | Cleveland | Ordinal, cardinal numbers |
| Aunts Go Marching | Manning | Count marching aunties with umbrellas; variation on tradition song |
| Big Fat Hen | Baker | Count to ten; rhyme "buckle my shoe" Life cycle lesson |
| Counting Crocodiles | Sierra | Counting to 26; problem solving, compare sizes |
| Count on Goz | Weatherill | Flap book; counting animals |
| Count with Titch 1,2,3 | Hutchins | Counting to 10; rhyme |
| Crazy Creatures Counting | Reidy & Mackie | Counting, numbers, colors, opposites, prepositions |
| Deep Down Underground | Dunrea | Count up to 10 and back down |
| Each Orange Had 8 Slices | Giganti | Counting to 54; repeated addition; multiplication Webpage |
| Emeka's Gift | Onyefulu | Nigerian story with photographs; counting |
| Everybody Needs a Rock | Baylor | Classification, rocks |
| The Father Who Had Ten Children | Buettier | Variation
of "Old Lady in a Shoe" Adding tens and twenties |
| Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On | Ehlert | Counting to 10; 1-1 correspondence; sorting fish; classify; congruence; size |
| Five Little Monsters | Williams | Counting;
sorting; 1-1 correspondence Webpage |
| Fred & Ted's Treasure Hunt | Offen | Counting steps to the treasure |
| From One to One Hundred | Sloat | Counting to 100 |
| Fruits: A Carribean Counting Poem | Bloom | Multicultural poem from Jamaica |
| How Many Can You See? | Reidy & Dodd | Counting, numbers, quantity, order |
| How Many Feet in the Bed? | Hamm | Family oriented |
| How Many Monsters? | van der Meer | Counting, sorting & selecting from 1-10 |
| How Many Snails? | Giganti | Counting; attributes |
| I
Can Count Vamos a Jugar (Spanish) |
Gibson | Counting insect heads, legs & wings |
| Icky Bug Counting Book | Pallotta | Count bugs; classify & sort; watch for suprises in illustrations! |
| Just a Minute | Morales | Counting in English & Spanish; a Halloween trickster |
| Many Hands Counting Book | Branstrom | Counting |
| My Oxford 123 Number Rhyme Book | McGough | Number rhymes; riddles, tongue twisters & picture quizzes |
| Nine Ducks Nine | Hayes | Count backwards from nine; rhyme |
| Nonsense Counting Rhymes | Umansky & Fisher | Wacky counting |
| Numberlies | Hawkins & Hawkins | Ten books of Numberlies who live in Numbertown; counting |
| Number Parade: A Wildlife Counting Book | Wood | Counting animals |
| Numbers | Reiss | 1000 raindrops on last page |
| One Bear All Alone | Bucknall | Counting to ten |
| One Duck Stuck | Root | Counting to 10 |
| One Lonely Seahorse | Freymann & Elffers | Grouping to count |
| One Smiling Grandma | Linden | Count to 10; multicultural |
| One Two, Skip a Few | Arenson | Traditional & new rhymes & chants |
| One Two Three, Count with Me | Anholt & Anholt | Rhyme |
| Over in the Grasslands | Wilson & Bartlett | Counting rhyme |
| Over on the Farm | Gunson | Rhyme |
| Percy the Park Keeper | Butterworth | Counting |
| Sally's Fantastic Counting Book | Dowling | Tab book; counting |
| Spot Can Count | Hill | Counting to 10 Webpage |
| Ten Black Dots | Crews | Good art project Webpage |
| Ten in the Bed | Dale | Counting to ten |
| Ten Little Ladybugs | Gerth | Count down from 10 Webpage |
| Ten Little Rabbits | Grossman | Native Americans |
| Ten,
Nine, Eight 1984 Caldecott winner |
Bang | Count
down from 10; multicultural Lesson |
| Ten Seeds | Brown | Counting backwards from 10 |
| Ten Sleepy Sheep | Keller | Counting |
| Toot, toot! | Wildsmith | Animal noises |
| Twelve Ways to Get to Eleven | Merriam | Counting
to 11 Webpage |
| The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Carle | |
| Way Out in the Desert | Marsh | Desert animals |
| We're Going on a Lion Hunt | Axtell | Southern African tale |
| What Comes in 2's, 3's and 4's? | Aker |
Counting by twos, threes; skip counting Use with calculator constant key |
| When Sheep Cannot Sleep | Kitamura | Counting to 10 |
| When We Went to the Park (oop) | Lathrop | Counting to 55 |
| Witches Four | Brown | Counting to four; number story |
| FRACTIONS | AUTHOR | COMMENTS |
| Pog Climbs Mount Everest | Haswell | Introduce fractions |
| Eating Fractions | McMillan | Eat wholes, halves, thirds, fourths |
| GEOMETRY | AUTHOR | COMMENTS |
| A Triangle for Adaora | Onyefulu | Shapes; African story |
| Circles, Triangles, Squares (oop) | Hoban | Shapes |
| Color Zoo | Ehlert | Cutouts that build up shape of animals |
| Eye Spy Shapes | MacKinnon & Sieveking | Peephole book |
| I Read Signs | Hoban | Shapes of common street signs |
| Mr Archimedes Bath (oop) | Allen | Volume, displacement |
| My Mum & Dad Make Me Laugh | Sharratt | Shapes & patterns |
| Rosie's Walk | Hutchins | Positional language |
| Shapely Sheep | Abel | Sheep fly, jump, crawl through shapes |
| Shapes, shapes, shapes | Hoban | Photographs of everyday shapes |
| Sing a Song of Shapes | Peterson | 2D & 3D shapes |
| Spirals, Curves, Fanshapes and Lines | Hoban | More geometrical shapes |
| Take Another Look | Hoban | Another point of view |
| The Greatest Gymnast of All | Murphy | Opposites |
| The Secret Birthday Message | Carle | Geometric shapes |
| The Shapes Game | Rogers | I Spy |
| The Very Busy Spider | Carle |
Spatial patterns, size, time Webpage |
| Upside-Downers | Anno | Mirror image; topology; point of view; perspective |
| Wing on a Flea | Emberley | Geometric shapes |
| MEASUREMENT | AUTHOR | COMMENTS |
| Actual Size | Jenkins | Compare with actual size animals/parts of animals |
| Big and Little | Jenkins | Animal sizes |
| Blue Sea | Kalan | Size |
| Counting Crocodiles | Sierra | Counting to 26; problem solving, compare sizes |
| Happy Birthday Sam | Hutchins | Height, age |
| The Line Up Book | Russo | Nonstandard linear measurement |
| Mrs Armitage On Wheels | Blake | Balance, weight, speed, ratio |
| Papa, Please Get Me the Moon | Carle | Large
foldout pages, size Webpage |
| Seven
Blind Mice |
Young | Names
& days of week Caldecott Winner |
| Sizes | Wise | Size |
| Strega Nona | de Paola |
Volume; quarter & half pages 1976 Caldecott winner |
| Ten Beads Tall | Adams | Height, length, spatial placement from floor; includes beads for measuring pictures |
| The Grouchy Ladybug | Carle | Hour by hour; increasing |
| The Line Up Book | Russo | Length |
| Where's My Teddy? | Alborough | Size |
| MONEY | AUTHOR | COMMENTS |
| 26 Letters and 99 Cents | Hoban | Addition & subtraction; money; counting by fives and tens |
| Max's Money | Slater | Money |
| Town Mouse Country Mouse | Brett | Online money activity |
| NUMBER SENSE | AUTHOR | COMMENTS |
| A Creepy Countdown | Huck | Halloween; number correspondence from 1-10 Webpage |
| Alfie's Numbers | Hughes | Counting & patterns |
| A Pair of Socks | Murphy | Pairs, patterns, and differences |
| A Three Hat Day | Geringer |
Permutations & combinations Lesson |
| The Baby's Catalogue | Ahlberg | Sorting & grouping |
| Beep-Beep, Vroom-Vroom | Murphy | Sequences; permutations |
| The Button Box (Spanish) | Reid | Sorting, comparison |
| Chicka Chicka 1 2 3 | Martin, Sampson & Ehlert | Count to 99 by ones and tens |
| Comet's Nine Lives | Brett | Online rounding numbers and ordinal numbers |
| The Crayon Counting Book | Ryan | Even, odd, words meaning "two" |
| Each Orange Had 8 Slices | Giganti | Counting to 54; repeated addition; multiplication Webpage |
| Exactly the Opposite | Hoban | Opposites |
| Missing Mittens | Murphy | Odd and even numbers |
| The Napping House | Wood | Patterns |
| Next Please | Jandl & Junge | Ordinal numbers |
| Popcorn | Asch | Estimating |
| Seaweed Soup | Murphy | 1-1 correspondence |
| What Comes in 2's, 3's and 4's? | Aker | Counting by 2s & 3s; skip counting; use with calculator constant key |
| PATTERNS | AUTHOR | COMMENTS |
| Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? | Martin | Rhyme of colored animals appearing |
| Color Zoo | Ehlert | Cutouts that build up shape of animals |
| Don't Forget the Bacon | Hutchins | Remember list to buy |
| The Grouchy Ladybug | Carle | Hour by hour; increasing |
| Hide and Snake | Baker | Make patterned snakes with beads, pasta, buttons, etc |
| If You Give a Moose a Muffin | Numeroff | Sequencing events |
| If You Give a Mouse a Cookie | Numeroff | Sequencing events |
| If You Give Pig a Pancake | Numeroff | Sequencing events |
| If You Take a Mouse to School | Numeroff | Sequencing events |
| If You Take a Mouse to the Movies | Numeroff | Sequencing events |
| Jump Frog Jump! | Kalan | Food chain |
| Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? | Martin | Sequencing sounds |
| Rosie's Walk | Hutchins | Rosie is unaware she is being followed by fox |
| Round Trip | Jonas | Black & white; trip to city then turn book over and read return trip |
| What's Next, Nina? | Kassirer | Patterns of beads on necklace |
| PROBABILITY & STATISTICS | AUTHOR | COMMENTS |
| The Best Vacation Ever | Murphy | Graphs |
| The Button Box | Reid | Sorting buttons |
| Eat Up, Gemma | Hayes & Omerod | Sorting, data handling |
| Farmer Duck | Waddell | Data handling |
| Hanukkah | Schotter | Multicultural story |
| The Hat | Brett | Online chart activity |
| Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? | Carlstrom | Combinations |
| Mouse Tales | Lobel | Seven short stories to choose amongst |
| My First Look at Sorting (Spanish) | Oliver | What doesn't belong? |
| Where
Does It Go? (Spanish) |
Miller | Tell what set it belongs to |
| PROBLEM SOLVING | AUTHOR | COMMENTS |
| Counting Crocodiles | Sierra | Counting to 26; problem solving, compare sizes |
| Frog in the Middle (oop) | Gretz | Problem solving and reasoning activities |
| Have You Seen My Cat? | Carle | Matching cats; congruence; properties; size |
| Too Many Hopkins | de Paola | Sequencing events |
| SORTING | AUTHOR | COMMENTS |
| Color Zoo | Ehlert | Cutouts that build up shape of animals |
| A House is a House for Me | Hoberman | Probability; rhyme |
| Icky Bug Counting Book | Pallotta | Count bugs; classify & sort |
| Is It Read? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? | Hoban | Sorting by color |
| People | Spier | Diverse cultures |
| Shoes, Shoes, Shoes | Morris | Sorting into types of shoes |
| Toby Counts His Marbles | Szekeres | Sort, count, group marbles by attribute |
| TIME | AUTHOR | COMMENTS |
| A Busy Year | Lionni | Month by month |
| All in One Hour | Crummel & Donohue | What can happen to a cat & mouse in one hour? |
| The Apple Pie Tree | Hall | Time sequence of apple seed to apple pie |
| Chicken Soup with Rice | Sendak | Food for each month |
| The Grouchy Ladybug | Carle | Hour by hour; increasing |
| The Napping House | Wood | Night turns into day |
| The New Baby Calf (French) | Chase | Seasons |
| Nine O'Clock Lullaby | Singer | Time zones around the world |
| P. Bear's New Year's Party | Lewis | Analog clock on each page |
| Sunshine | Ormerod | Daily schedule |
| The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Carle | Eating through days of the week |
| When I Learn to Tell Time (oop) | Johnson |