Preschool Literature in the
Mathematics Classroom

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

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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

Webpage     Webpage    
Craft ideas
Literacy lesson

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