Title |
Author |
Grade |
Comments |
| 3-D, 2-D, 1-D | Adler | Dimensions | |
| Abuela | Dorras | PK-3 |
Dual language book; perspective from the air |
| A Cloak for the Dreamer | Friedman | PK-3 |
Multicultural; tessellations |
| A Lion in the Night (oop) | Allen | K-2 |
Maps, directional vocabulary |
| Angles Are As Easy As Pie (oop) | Froman | 4-8 |
Angles |
| Anno’s Math Games III (Spanish) | Anno | PK-3 |
Abstract thinking, circuitry, geometry, and topology |
| A Triangle for Adaora: an African Book of Shapes | Onyefulu | PK-3 |
Nigerian culture; shapes in nature |
| Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad | Ringgold | PK-3 |
Perimeter
of quilt shapes lesson Quilts & the Underground Railroad Quilt codes |
| The Boy With Square Eyes | Snape & Snape | 4-6 |
Too much TV makes everything square |
| Building a Bridge | Begaye | PK-3 |
Blocks; Native American |
| Captain Invincible & the Space Shapes | Murphy | PK-3 |
3-D shapes |
| The Case of the Backyard Treasure | Rocklin | PK-3 |
Patterns, measure, time, maps |
| Changes, Changes | Hutchins | PK-3 |
3-D shapes |
| Chickens on the Move | Pollack & Belviso | PK-3 |
Perimeter, measurement & shape of chicken pen |
| Circles | Ross | 4-6 |
Symmetry, spheres, spirals |
| Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, and Spheres | Hoban | PK-3 |
3-D shapes in everyday things |
| Draw Me a Star | Carle | PK-3 |
Finding triangles in stars Webpage |
| Eight Hands Round | Paul | PK-3 |
Quilt patterns Lesson Quilt codes |
| The Ellipse | Charosh | Ellipses | |
| Exploring Triangles: Paper-folding Geometry | Phillips | PK-3 |
Triangles |
| Eye Spy Shapes: A Peephole Book | MacKinnon & Sieveking | PK-3 |
Clues to shapes |
| The Fine Round Cake | Esterl | PK-3 |
Gingerbread Boy recipe Gingerbread |
| Flat Stanley | Brown | PK-3 |
2D
& 3D representations Quiz Project Sightings |
| Give the Dog a Bone | Kellogg | K-3 |
Count dogs to 250; volume |
| Grandfather Tang's Story | Tompert | PK-3 |
Tangram
animals Area lesson Webpage Fraction lesson Other tangram books |
| The Greedy Triangle | Burns | PK-3 |
Geometric shapes |
| How We Learned the Earth is Round | Lauber | PK-3 |
Circumference |
| Icky Bug Shapes | Pallotta | PK-3 |
Insects; shapes |
| I Spy Shapes in Art | Micklethwait | PK-2 |
Geometric shapes in art pieces |
| Jack & the Beanstalk | Kellogg | PK-3 |
Coordinate plane; Pythagorean theorem |
| Kitten Castle | Friedman | PK-3 |
Building castle from household shapes |
| The Kuekumber Kids Meet the Sheik of Shapes | Sutton | 3-4 |
Magic carpets and geometric shapes |
| Let's Fly A Kite | Murphy | PK-3 |
Symmetry |
| The Librarian Who Measured the Earth | Lasky | PK-3 |
Eratosthenes; circumference |
| The Log Cabin Quilt | Howard | PK-3 |
Quilt
patterns; pioneer story Lesson Quilt codes |
| Look at Annette | Walter | PK-3 |
Symmetry with mirrors |
| Lost: A Story of String | Fleischmann | PK-3 |
String figures with appendix of instructions |
| Louise Builds a House | Pfanner | PK-3 |
Architectural shapes |
| Maebelle's Suitcase | Tusa | PK-3 |
Lots of hats for 108 year old |
| Mirror Magic | Simon | 4-6 |
Symmetry; reflection |
| Mirror Puzzle Book (oop) | Walter | 4-6 |
Shapes reflected in mirror |
| M is for Mirror | Birmingham | PK-3 |
Symmetry |
| Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry | Neuschwander | 1-4 |
Geometric solids; faces |
| Museum Shapes | Metropolitan Museum of Art | K-3 |
Find shapes in art pieces |
| My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes | Sutton
& Dodd |
PK-3 |
Solid shapes |
| My Full Moon is Square | Pinczes | PK-3 |
Changing dimensions |
| Nature Got There First | Gates | 4-7 |
Spatial relations, weight, geometric form |
| Not Enough Room! | Rocklin | PK-3 |
Area |
| Opt: An Illusionary Tale | Baum | PK-3 |
Optical illusions |
| Over, Under, & Through & Other Spatial Concepts | Hoban | PK-3 |
Spatial sense |
| Pancakes for Breakfast | de Paola | PK-3 |
Circles; wordless book; sequencing order |
| Pigs on the Ball | Axelrod | PK-3 |
Geometry in miniature golf |
| Pyramid | Macaulay | 4-6 |
Pyramid shape; Egyptian history |
| The Quilt Story | Johnston | PK-3 |
Patterns Lesson Quilt codes |
| Racing Around | Murphy | PK-3 |
Perimeter |
| Reflections | Jonas | PK-3 |
Different perspectives/symmetries; book is reversible! |
| Right Angles: Paper-folding Geometry | Phillips | 4-6 |
Angles |
| Room for Ripley | Murphy | PK-3 |
Liquid measurement; volume |
| Round & Round & Round (oop) | Hoban | PK-3 |
Round objects |
| Round Trip | Jonas | PK-3 |
Geometry; negative/positive space; symmetry |
| Sam Johnson & the Blue Ribbon Quilt | Ernst | PK-3 |
Border
designs; patterns & symmetry Quilt codes |
| Sam's Sneaker Squares | Gabriel | PK-3 |
Comparing area of lawns to mow for money |
| The Secret Birthday Message | Carle | PK-3 |
Pattern recognition, matching shapes, map-reading, directional relationships |
| Shape Space | Falwell | PK-3 |
Shapes |
| Shadows & Reflections | Hoban | PK-3 |
Symmetry and reflection |
| Shadowville | Bartalos | PK-3 |
Shadows (symmetry) |
| Shrinking Mouse | Hutchins | PK-3 |
Spatial perspective; size |
| The Silly Story of Goldie Locks & the Three Squares | MacCarone | PK-3 |
Geometric shapes |
| Sir Cumference & the Dragon of Pi | Neuschwander | PK-6 |
A magic number for all circles Lesson |
| Sir Cumference & the First Round Table | Neuschwander | 4-6 |
Shapes Lesson |
| Sir Cumference & the Great Knight of Angleland | Neuschwander | 4-6 |
Angles and protractor medallion |
| Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter | Neuschwander | 3-6 |
Perimeter; area |
| Sir Cumference & the Sword in the Cone | Neuschwander | 4-6 |
Cones |
| So Many Circles, So Many Squares | Hoban | PK-3 |
Circles and squares |
| Spaghetti and Meatballs for All | Burns | PK-3 |
Perimeter/area Webpage |
| Stanley Flat Again | Brown | 4-6 |
2D & 3D representations |
| Straight Lines, Parallel Lines, Perpendicular Lines | Charosh | PK-3 |
Lines |
| Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt | Hopkinson | PK-3 |
|
| The Tangram Magician | Ernst | All |
Tangrams Fraction
lesson Other tangram books |
| Three Pigs, One Wolf & Seven Magic Shapes | MacCarone | PK-3 |
Tangrams Fraction
lesson Other tangram books |
| Tic-Tac-Toe: Three in a Row | Stamper | PK-3 |
Logical reasoning; tic-tac-toe game |
| Topsy Turvies | Anno | PK-3 |
Dimension; perspective; impossible pictures (pretty old-fashioned) |
| Tree of Life: The World of the African Baobab | Bash | PK-3 |
Area
and perimeter; African legend Baobob tree math |
| The Warlord's Puzzle | Pilegard | PK-3 |
Tiling & tessellating |
| The Village of Round and Square Houses | Grifalconi | PK-3 |
Squares & circles; multicultural African story; gender issues |
| We're Going on a Bear Hunt | Rosen | PK-3 |
Position, direction and movement |
| Whats Your Angle, Pythagoras? | Ellis | 4-6 |
Pythagoras as a boy discovering his famous theorem |
| When a Line Bends, a Shape Begins | Greene | PK-3 |
From lines to shapes |
| Where's That Bone? | Penner | PK-3 |
Mapping; position words to find buried bones |
| Why Do Leaves Change Colors? | Maestro | PK-3 |
Geometric activities |
| X Marks the Spot | Penner | PK-3 |
Maps & charts for problem solving |