Title |
Author |
Grade |
Comments |
| Actual Size | Jenkins | PK-5 |
Animal collages in actual size |
| A House for Hermit Crab | Carle | PK-3 |
Measurement; months of the year; timeline |
| Alley Oop! | Mayer | PK-3 |
Estimate weight of each animal; total |
| A Pig is Big | Florian | PK-3 |
Size |
| Armadillo Rodeo | Brett | PK-3 |
Lesson |
| Block City | Stevenson | PK-3 |
Measurement; architecture; city design Lesson |
| Carrie Measures Up | Aber | PK-3 |
Measuring things around the house |
| Come Away From the Water, Shirley | Burningham & Cape | PK-3 |
Capacity |
| Counting on Frank | Clement | PK-6 |
Volume and other measurements |
| Esio Trot | Dahl | 4-6 |
Size; tortoises |
| Fannie in the Kitchen | Hopkinson | PK-3 |
Precise measurements; cooking recipes |
| Farmer Mack Measures His Pig | Johnston | PK-3 |
Fatter and better jumper |
| Fish Fry Tonight | Koller | PK-3 |
Size comparison |
| How Big is a Foot? | Myller | PK-3 |
Non-standard measurements |
| How Tall, How Short, How Far Away | Adler | PK-3 |
Metric/standard measurements; history of measurement Lesson |
| How to Weigh an Elephant | Barner | PK-3 |
Animals compare weight to an elephant |
| The 100-Pound Problem | Dussling | PK-3 |
Weight; problem solving |
| If You Hopped Like a Frog | Schwartz | PK-3 |
Ratio of sizes |
| Inch by Inch | Lionni | PK-3 |
Non-standard units 1960 Caldecott winner Webpage |
| Inchworm and a Half | Pinczes | PK-3 |
Measuring the garden; whole numbers & fractions |
| Is the Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? | Wells | PK-3 |
Measurement, large number sense Lesson |
| Jack & the Beanstalk | Estimation
of measurement Webpage |
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| Jim & the Beanstalk | Briggs | PK-3 |
Twisted tale of measurement and proportion |
| Just a Little Bit | Tompert | PK-3 |
Weight & balancing amounts |
| Keep Your Distance | Herman | PK-3 |
Distance in inches, feet, yards, miles |
| Long, Short, High, Low, Thin, Wide | Fey | Measurement | |
| Lulu's Lemonade | Derubertis | PK-3 |
Recipe doubling; teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, pints, and gallons |
| The Man Who Walked Between The Towers | Gerstein | K-6 |
Highest
towers; 44 pound cable; height Caldecott book |
| Mapping Penny's World | Leedy | PK-3 |
Map scale, key, symbols |
| Marvin Measures Up | Browning | PK-3 |
Measuring sticks |
| Marvin Weighs In | Browning | PK-3 |
Weight |
| The Math Chef: Over 60 Math Activities & Recipes for Kids | D'Amico & Eich | 4-6 |
Makes fractions, measurements, multiplication and other math concepts fun |
| Measuring for the Art Show | Fosnot | 4-6 |
Measuring;
addition on the open number line Online |
| Measuring Penny | Leedy | PK-3 |
Non-standard measurement |
| Millions to Measure | Schwartz | PK-3 |
Origins of measurement |
| Miss Nelson is Missing! | Allard | PK-3 |
Non-standard measurement |
| More for Me | Kleinhenz | PK-3 |
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| Mouse Views: What the Class Pet Saw | McMillan | PK-3 |
Point of view, perspective, size |
| Much Bigger Than Martin | Kellogg | PK-3 |
Size |
| Mushroom in the Rain | Ginsburg | PK-3 |
Mushroom grows to fit; measurement |
| My
Friend Rabbit 2003 Caldecott |
Rohmann | PK-3 |
Height
|
| My Place in Space | Hirst | PK-3 |
Distance, space, micro/macrocosm |
| The Mysterious Tadpole | Kellogg | PK-3 |
Measure the tadpole |
| Nature Got There First | Gates | 4-7 |
Spatial relations, weight, geometric form |
| One-Eyed Jake | Hutchins | PK-3 |
Pirates; heavier, lighter; balance |
| "One Inch Tall" from Where the Sidewalk Ends | Silverstein | Measurement Lesson |
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| Pardon? Said the Giraffe | West | PK-3 |
Comparative sizes |
| Patrick's Dinosaurs | Carrick | PK-3 |
Large creatures |
| Pigs in the Pantry | Axelrod | PK-3 |
Cooking measurements; following recipes |
| Pigs on the Move | Axelrod | PK-3 |
Distance |
| Re-Zoom | Banyai | PK-3 |
Size; proportion; sequencing |
| Slower than a Snail | Schreiber | PK-3 |
Speed; size |
| Star Maiden | Esbensen | PK-3 |
Non-standard measurement; Native American tale |
| Storybook Stew: Cooking with Books Kids Love | Barchers | 4-6 |
Cooking measures |
| Strega Nona | dePaola | PK-3 | Volume; measurement; too much pasta |
| Super Sand Castle Saturday | Murphy | PK-3 |
Non-standard measurement; multi-ethnic |
| Tell Me How Far It Is (Spanish) | Willis | PK-3 |
Length; distance |
| The Best Bug Parade: Comparing Sizes | Murphy | PK-3 |
Size |
| The Biggest Fish | Keenan | PK-3 |
Non-standard |
| The Borrowers | Norton | 4-6 |
Scale, ratio, and proportion |
| The Dragon's Scales | Albee | PK-3 |
Weight; balance scales |
| The Fattest, Tallest, Biggest Snowman Ever | Rex | PK-3 |
Size |
| The Foot Book | Seuss | PK-3 |
Estimating
measurement Lesson |
| The Enormous Turnip | Tolstoi | PK-3 |
Size vs ability |
| The Light Princess | MacDonals | 4-6 |
Weight, mass, weightlessness; gravity |
| The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale | Brett | PK-3 |
Size; Ukrainian folktale |
| The Trouble with Elephants | Riddell | PK-3 |
Size, weight |
| The Mysterious Tadpole | Kellogg | PK-3 |
Size |
| The Village of Round and Square Houses | Grifalconi | PK-3 |
Actual African village story |
| There's No Place Like Space | Rabe | 4-8 |
Space; distance; measurement Webpage |
| Thunder Cake | Polacco | PK-3 |
Cooking |
| Tiddalick, the Frog Who Caused a Flood | Roennfeldt | PK-3 |
Capacity; aboriginal dreamtime legend |
| Twelve Snails to One Lizard | Hightower | PK-3 |
Non-standard measurement; length in inches/feet/yards |
| Two Greedy Bears | Ginsburg | PK-3 |
Measurement; Hungarian folktale |
| Wagon Wheels | Brenner | PK-3 |
Distance; how long to travel |
| What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew? (Spanish) | Wells | 4-6 |
Size from small to big |
| What's Up with That Cup | Keenan | PK-3 |
Choosing measuring tools |
| Who Sank the Boat? | Allen | PK-3 |
Weight, balance, capacity; estimation & prediction; sink/float
Webpage Capacity lesson |
| Wilma Unlimited | Krull | 4-6 |
Measurement; timeline; Olympics |
| Zoom | Banyai | PK-3 |
Size; perspective |