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Children's books about math

Last Updated: 23-Oct-2015

This guide lists children's books and young adult literature in the Cubberley Education Library about mathematics and arithmetic.

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Shapes in Math, Science and Nature : Squares, Triangles and Circles / written by Catherine Sheldrick Ross ; illustrated by Bill Slavin.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QA445.5 .R66 2014
Lexile measure 970; Ages 9-13; Gr.4-8
Mysterious patterns : finding fractals in nature / Sarah C. Campbell ; photographs by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QA445.5 .C34 2014
Ages 7-10; Gr.3-6
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What's the difference? : an endangered animal subtraction story / by Suzanne Slade ; illustrated by Joan Waites.
Mount Pleasant, S.C. : Sylvan Dell Publishing, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL83 .S52 2010
Lexile Measure 960; Book level 5; Ages 4-8; Gr.Prk-3
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One is a snail, ten is a crab : a counting by feet book / April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre ; illustrated by Randy Cecil.
1st pbk. ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QA113 .S367 2006
Lexile measure 710; Ages 5-8
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Count the monkeys / [text by] Mac Barnett ; [illustrations by] Kevin Cornell.
1st ed. New York : Disney Hyperion Books, c2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3602 .A83427 C68 2013
Round is a tortilla : a book of shapes / by Roseanne Greenfield Thong ; illustrated by John Parra.
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3620 .H747 R686 2013
Ages 2-5
Circus shapes / by Stuart J. Murphy ; illustrated by Edward Miller.
New York : HarperCollins, c1998.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3563 .U76193 C57 1998
Lexile measure 140; Ages 2-5

Other books

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Anno's magic seeds / written and illustrated by Mitsumasa Anno.
New York : Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1999, c1995.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QA295 .A66 1999
Ages 5-8, gr. 1-4
Anno's mysterious multiplying jar / Masaichiro and Mitsumasa Anno ; illustrated by Mitsumasa Anno.
New York : Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1999.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QA246.5 .A5613 1983
Gr. 1-4
Circus shapes / by Stuart J. Murphy ; illustrated by Edward Miller.
New York : HarperCollins, c1998.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3563 .U76193 C57 1998
Lexile measure 140; Ages 2-5, gr. K-2
Growing patterns : Fibonacci numbers in nature / Sarah C. Campbell ; photographs by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell.
1st ed. Honesdale, Pa. : Boyds Mills Press, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QA246.5 .C36 2010 F
Ages 7-11, gr. 2-5
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Math curse / Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith.
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1995.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3569 .C5746 M38 1995
Awards: American Library Association Notable Children's Book 1996; Lexile measure 560; Book level 3.7; Ages 6-9, gr. 3-6
Mouse shapes / Ellen Stoll Walsh.
1st ed. Orlando : Harcourt, c2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3573 .A467 M68 2007
Book level 1.7; Ages 2-7, gr. PreK-K
One gorilla : a counting book / Anthony Browne.
1st U.S. ed. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2013, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QA113 .B767 2013 F
Ages 3-7, gr. PreK-2
One leaf rides the wind : counting in a Japanese garden / by Celeste Davidson Mannis ; pictures by Susan Kathleen Hartung.
New York : Viking, c2002.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3613 .A566 O54 2002
Lexile measurement Nonprose; Ages 4-10; Grade level 2.5; Counting & number book, gr. K-3
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One two that's my shoe! / Alison Murray.
1st U.S. ed. New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3613 .U7565 O54 2011
Ages 2-6, gr. PreK-K
Oxford illustrated math dictionary.
New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QA5 .O94 2012
Pete the cat and his four groovy buttons / story by Eric Litwin ; created & illustrated by James Dean.
1st ed. New York, NY : Harper, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3612 .I886 P48 2012
Lexile measure 350; Ages 4-7; Comedy and Humor, Poetry and Rhymes, gr. PreK-1
Round is a mooncake : a book of shapes / written by Roseanne Thong ; illustrated by Grace Lin.
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2000.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3620 .H747 R68 2000
Book level 2.9; Ages 2-6, gr. K-2
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Shapes, shapes, shapes / by Tana Hoban.
1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, 1988, c1986.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QA447 .H63 1986
Ages 2-6, PreK-2
365 penguins / Jean-Luc Fromental and Joëlle Jolivet.
English-language ed. New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, c2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PQ2666 .R584 A61513 2006 F
Book level 3.1; Ages 5-10, gr. K-4
The Wing Wing brothers math spectacular! / Ethan Long.
1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QA141 .L74 2012
Ages 4-6, gr. gr. PreK-2