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What in the World?: Numbers in Nature

Nancy Raines Day - Beach Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Discover nature by the numbers in this gorgeous, innovative counting book.The natural world is full of sets of numbers: from birds' wings in twos and clover leaves in threes to deer hooves in fours and octopus arms in eights. This book uses playful rhyming text to explore these numerical...
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1 Cookie, 2 Chairs, 3 Pears: Numbers Everywhere

Jane Brocket - Lerner Publishing Group
Format: Book

Five toes, twelve cupcakes, nineteen puzzle piecesnumbers are all around us. How many numbers can you count in the pages of this book?,
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10 Little Kittens

Megan Borgert-Spaniol - Cantata Learning; Har/Com edition
Format: Print book

A counting song that introduces several animals and the sounds they make. Includes hardcover book, online music access, and music CD.
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10 times 10

Hervé Tullet - Tate
Format: Hardcover

How many ways can you count to 10 With numbers, fingers, paints How about with racing cars or with a fairy tale In fact, you can do it almost any way you like! Herv Tullet, who has established an international reputation for creating dynamic books for young children, brings us this smart...
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Around the Moon 1, 2, 3: A Space Counting Book

Tracey E. Dils - Amicus
Format: Hardcover

Young readers will build counting skills and content knowledge with these delightful counting books! Each book increases number familiarity and counting skills, while also introducing fun facts about popular early childhood topics. Each spread clearly displays the featured number, plus...
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Bear Counts

Karma Wilson - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

Numbers and counting are so much fun with Bear in the second of a concept picture book series from the New York Times bestselling creators of Bear's New Friend.Numbers, numbers everywhere.Can you count along with Bear? Karma Wilson's spirited text and Jane Chapman's inviting...
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Catwoman Counting

Benjamin Bird - Picture Window Books; Brdbk edition
Format: Hardcover

Catwoman is on the loose in Gotham City! Young readers team up with Batman, tracking down the cat burglar and learning their numbers along the way!
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Cheers for a Dozen Ears: A Summer Crop of Counting

Felicia Sanzari Chernesky - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

Summertime means fresh veggies at the farm stand to pick out and count! This concept book follows a family's stop at the farm stand as they count tomatoes, strawberries, sunflowers--and yes, ears of corn. Felicia Sanzari Chernesky's simple verses are beautifully accompanied by Susan...
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Colors Everywhere: Counting

Lizelot Versteeg - Clavis
Format: Hardcover

White gum, an orange cat. Wow! Take a look at that. Purple grapes, a black cup. Please hold your fingers up.Pink beads, an orange pen, look with us and count to ten. Green glasses, a yellow sun, count with us and have some fun. Oh, and look for a balloon on every page.
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Count with Maisy

Lucy Cousins - Candlewick Press; 1st edition
Format: Board book

Bold, full-color artwork and a simple text follow lovable Maisy as she learns how to count, from one ladybug to six fish to ten fleas, in an appealing counting board book. For children under three."
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Counting Crows

Kathi Appelt - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Help hungry crows avoid a feline foe in this clever concept book from the author of The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp and The Underneath.One, two, three, crows in a tree, bedecked in red scarves and hungry as can be. So they fly out of their nest with snacking in mind,...
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Down in the jungle, 1,2,3 : a rain forest counting book

Tracey E Dils - Amicus
Format:  Print book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats

"Introduces rain forest plants and animals, such as orchids, jaguars, and snakes, while teaching the concept of counting to ten"--
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Down on the farm 1, 2, 3 : a farm counting book

Tracey E Dils - Amicus
Format:  Print book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats

"Introduces pigs, horses, chicks, and other objects around the farm, while teaching the concept of counting to ten"--
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Falling Leaves 1,2,3: An Autumn Counting Book

Tracey E. Dils - Amicus Ink
Format: Print book

Young readers will build counting skills and content knowledge with these delightful counting books! Each book increases number familiarity and counting skills, while also introducing fun facts about popular early childhood topics. Each spread clearly displays the featured number, plus...
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Five Little Monkeys: A Fingers & Toes Nursery Rhyme Book

Natalie Marshall - Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic
Format: Print book

Little ones learn classic finger play and nursery rhymes in the second book in Scholastic's Fingers & Toes series, the adorable Five Little Monkeys!Five little monkeys, jumping on the bed.One fell off and bumped his head.Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,"No...
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Have You Seen My Dragon?

Steve Light - ‎Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Enter a fascinating, ornately drawn cityscape and help a boy find his dragon while counting objects from hot dogs to traffic lights.In the heart of the city, among the taxis and towers, a small boy travels uptown and down, searching for his friend....
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Hockey Counting

Mark Weakland - Capstone Press; Brdbk edition
Format: Board book

One puck, two goals, three forwards! Kids will count their way through this fun look at ice hockey. Produced in partnership with Sports Illustrated KIDS.
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Kitchen Math

Katie Marsico - Lerner Publications
Format: Book

Math is everywhere in the kitchen! See whats cooking inside this bookand how we need math to finish the job! Youll need your math smarts to help measure ingredients, calculate cooking times, add and subtract fractions, double and halve recipes, convert cups to ounces and back again, and more....
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Its a Seashell Day

Dianne Ochiltree - Blue Apple Books
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Florida Book Awards Gold/Reichert Award!Sunny-as-a-summer-sky rhymes chronicle a mother and son sharing a day of sand digging, seashell collecting, and seashore exploring. Kids will learn about a variety of shells and count along with the boy as he totals up his collection,...
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More or Less and a Vampire's Guess

Spencer Brinker - Bearport Publishing
Format: Book

"In this book, young readers learn to identify quantities with a Vampire guide."--
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My First Book of Numbers

Emma Hill - Firefly Books; Brdbk edition
Format: Board book

My First Book of Numbers is a cheerful way to introduce toddlers to the numbers 1 to 12. Each page features three elements: the printed number, the object or animal, and the description in large letters: one fluffy chick two striped socks three eggs in a nest four wooden cars...
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Numeralia

Jorge Luján - Groundwood Books
Format: Hardcover

From the first page of this unusual and original collaboration between Jorge Lujn and Isol, it's clear that this is not just another counting book. Whether they are discovering that three is for bedtime kisses, or that five is for secret creatures hiding in a glove, children will delight...
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My pets and me 1, 2, 3 : a pets counting book

Tracey E Dils - Amicus
Format: Hardcover

"Introduces dogs, cats, hamsters, and other fun pets, while teaching the concept of counting to ten"--
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One Big Pair of Underwear

Laura Gehl - Beach Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Count and share with ... underwear! Come along on a zany adventure with hilarious pictures from the New York Times bestselling illustrator of Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site.Whats one thing that two bears, three yaks, four goats, and six cats have in common? They hate to share....
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One Family

George Shannon - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A celebration of diverse families plus a clever 1-10 counting element in this unabridged board book edition of One Family.Just how many things can "one" be? One box of crayons. One batch of cookies. One world. One family.From veteran picture book author George Shannon and artist...
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One Is a Drummer: A Book of Numbers

Roseanne Thong - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

This lively concept book shows that the world around us is filled with things to count. Three are the dim sum carts filled with yummy treats, eight are the candles on a birthday cake, and ten are the bamboo stalks growing in a garden. Many of the featured objects are Asian in origin, but all are universal...
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Our Neighborhood Food Drive: Extend the Counting Sequence

Corey Halloran - Powerkids Pr
Format: Print book

Engaging story lines and relatable contexts assist readers in understanding the fundamentals of numbers and operations in base ten. Students will learn how to extend the count sequence and gain an understanding of place value in order to apply that understanding to addition and subtraction...
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Race Car Count

Rebecca Kai Dotlich - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Print book

Race car 1 honks look at me!He zooms in front with the turn of a key.Race car 2 is close behind.The sound of vroom is on his mind.This simple, rhyming text is perfect for reinforcing counting with young children, and the vibrant, energetic illustrations make this a terrific package for the youngest...
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Ten Eggs in a Nest

Marilyn Sadler - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Beginning readers can count to tenand addwhile they learn to read with P.J. Funnybunny author Marilyn Sadlers latest, funniest Bright and Early Book! Gwen the hen has laid her eggs, but just how many is anyones guess. For now, shes quite content to sit and wait for them to hatch. Red Rooster,...
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This Old Band

Tamera Will Wissinger - Sky Pony Press

What kinds of instruments would you imagine a band of cowboys playing? Surely nothing fancy, but they can still make do with what they have, like jugs, combs, boots, and whatever else they can find. Out on the open range, with no one to tell them to quit their hollerin', a cowboy band...
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This Old Van

Kim Norman - Sterling Children's Books
Format: Print book

This old van, she passed one, shining in the rising sun. With a click clack rattle rack,ready for some fun,This old van says,"Goodbye, one!" Take a rollicking ride in This Old Van, a joyful take on the classic children's counting song. As the colorfully painted vintage...
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Under the Sea 1, 2, 3: Counting Ocean Life

Barbara Knox - Capstone Press
Format: Print book

A counting book that presents a variety of creatures that live in the ocean.
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