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Selected Juvenile Books: Math Concepts

The following books are located in the Juvenile section of the library on the 1st floor (basement).
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  • Addition
  • Building and Architecture
  • Classification
  • Comparisons (Measurement)
  • Counting
  • Equation Building
  • Estimation
  • Fractions
  • Games and Puzzles
  • Geometry
  • Large Numbers
  • Lines and Angles
  • Measurement and Size
  • Money
  • Multiplication and Division
  • Numbers/Visual
  • Ordinal Numbers
  • Patterns
  • Place Value
  • Probability
  • Problem Solving
  • Shapes
  • Sorting
  • Spacial Concepts
  • Subtraction
  • Time
  • Understanding Zero
  • Whole Numbers

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    Addition:
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- Anno's Counting Book (Kazoete miyo)
  • Burningham, John -- Mr. Gumpy's Outing
  • Christelow, Eileen -- Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
  • Giganti, Paul -- Each Orange Had 8 Slices: A Counting Book
  • Godwin, Edward Xavier -- Number Mania: Math Puzzlers for Smart Kids
  • Leedy, Loreen -- Mission: Addition
  • Long, Lynette -- Domino Addition
  • McCourt, Lisa -- Candy Counting: Delicious Ways to Add and Subtract
  • Merriam, Eve -- 12 Ways To Get To 11
  • Moore, Inga -- Six Dinner Sid
  • Root, Phyllis -- One Duck Stuck
  • Ross, Tony -- Centipede's 100 Shoes
  • Silverstein, Shel -- "Band-aids" in Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • Tang, Greg -- Math Appeal
  • Tang, Greg -- Math-terpieces: the Art of Problem Solving
  • Walsh, Ellen -- Mouse Count
  • Wood, Audrey -- The Napping House
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    Building and Architecture:
  • Grifalconi, Ann -- Village of Round and Square Houses, The
  • Macaulay, David -- Castle
  • Macaulay, David -- Cathedral
  • Macaulay, David -- City
  • Macaulay, David -- Pyramid
  • Macaulay, David -- Underground
  • Munro, Roxie -- The Inside-Outside Book of Washington, D.C.
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    Classification:
  • Aliki -- Dinosaurs Are Different
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- Anno's Math Games (Hajimete deau sugaku no ehon)
  • Carle, Eric -- Have You Seen My Cat?
  • Carle, Eric -- The Mixed-up Chameleon
  • Ehlert, Lois -- Planting a Rainbow
  • Giganti, Paul -- How Many Snails?: A Counting Book
  • Hoban, Tana -- Exactly the Opposite
  • Hoban, Tana -- Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue?: An Adventure in Color
  • Hoban, Tana -- Is it Rough? Is it Smooth? Is it Shiny?
  • Lionni, Leo -- A Color of His Own
  • Mayer, Mercer -- Just a Mess
  • McMillian, Bruce -- Growing Colors
  • Morris, Ann -- Bread Bread Bread
  • Morris, Ann -- Hats Hats Hats
  • Reid, Margarette -- The Button Box
  • Silverstein, Shel -- "Hector the Collector" in Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • Slobodkina, Esphyr -- Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and
    Their Monkey Business
  • Spier, Perer-- People
  • Taruri, Nancy -- Spots, Feathers and Curly Tails
  • Winthrop, Elizabeth-- Shoes
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    Comparisons (Measurement):
  • Axelrod, Amy -- Pigs on the Move: Funs with Math and Travel
  • Jenkins, Steve -- Biggest, Strongest, Fastest
  • Krauss, Ruth-- The Carrot Seed
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    Counting:
  • Aker, Suzanne -- What Comes in 2's, 3's, & 4's?
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- Anno's Counting Book (Kozoete miyo)
  • Bang, Molly -- Ten, Nine, Eight
  • Bishop, Claire -- The Five Chinese Brothers
  • Boynton, Sandra -- Hippos Go Beserk!
  • Carle, Eric -- Rooster's Off to See the World
  • Cheng, Andrea -- Grandfather Counts
  • Christelow, Eileen -- Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
  • Christelow, Eileen -- Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree
  • Chwast, Seymour -- The Twelve Circus Rings
  • Clement, Rod -- Counting on Frank
  • Cole, Norma -- Blast - off!: A Space Counting Book
  • Crews, Donald -- Bicycle Race
  • Crews, Donald -- Ten Black Dots
  • De Regniers, Beatrice -- So Many Cats!
  • Dee, Ruby -- Two Ways to Count to Ten: A Liberian Folktale
  • Ehlert, Lois-- Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On
  • Ernst, Lisa C. -- Up to Ten and Down Again
  • Feelings, Muriel -- Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book
  • Fleming, Denise -- Count!
  • Galdone, Paul-- Three Billy Goats Gruff (Tre Bukkene Bruse)
  • Giganti, Paul-- Each Orange Had 8 Slices: A Counting Book
  • Giganti, Paul -- How Many Snails?: A Counting Book
  • Ginsburg, Mirra -- Across the Stream
  • Girnis, Margaret -- 1, 2, 3 For You and Me
  • Gollub, Matthew -- Ten Oni Drummers
  • Gretz, Susanna -- Teddy Bears 1 to 10
  • Harshman, Marc -- Only One
  • Hoban, Tana -- Count and See
  • Hong, Lily Toy-- Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale
  • Hutchings, Amy -- The Gummy Candy Counting Book
  • Hutchins, Pat -- 1 Hunter
  • Johnson, Stephen -- City By Numbers
  • Katz, Karen -- Counting Christmas
  • Keats, Ezra J. -- One Red Sun: A Counting Book
  • Kitamura, Satoshi -- When Sheep Cannot Sleep: The Counting Book
  • Leonard, Marcia -- Counting Kangaroos: A Book About Numbers
  • Lindbergh, Reeve -- The Midnight Farm
  • Lobel, Anita -- One Lighthouse, One Moon
  • McCourt, Lisa -- Candy Counting: Delicious Ways to Add and Subtract
  • McGrath, Barbara Barbieri -- The Baseball Counting Book
  • McGrath, Barbara -- The Cheerios Counting Book
  • Merriam, Eve -- 12 Ways to Get to 11
  • Pallotta, Jerry -- Underwater Counting: Even Numbers
  • Peek, Merle -- Roll Over!: A Counting Song
  • Root, Phyllis -- One Duck Stuck
  • Rose, Deborah L. -- One Nighttime Sea: An Ocean Counting Rhyme
  • Ryan, Pam M. -- The Crayon Counting Book
  • Sheppard, Jeff -- The Right Number of Elephants
  • Tafuri, Nancy -- Who's Counting?
  • Tang, Greg -- Math Appeal
  • Tang, Greg -- Math Fables
  • Tang, Greg -- Math-terpieces: the Art of Problem Solving
  • Thorne-Thompson, Kathleen -- A Shaker's Dozen Counting Book
  • Trivas, Irene -- Emma's Christmas: An Old Song
  • Walsh, Ellen -- Mouse Count
  • Walton, Rick -- How Many, How Many, How Many
  • Wells, Rosemary -- Emily's First 100 Days of School
  • Williams, Rozanne Lanczak -- The Coin Counting Book
  • Yolen, Jane -- An Invitation to the Butterfly Ball: A Counting Rhyme
  • Zaslavsky, Claudia -- Count on Your Fingers African Style
  • Ziefert, Harriet -- A Dozen Dogs: A Read-And-Count Story
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    Equation Building:
  • Burningham, John -- The Shopping Basket
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    Estimation:
  • Clement, Rod -- Counting On Frank
  • Gág, Wanda -- Millions of Cats
  • Heller, Ruth -- A Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns
  • Hennessy, B.G. -- The Dinosaur Who Lived in My Backyard
  • Jenkins, Steve -- Hottest, coldest, highest, deepest
  • Kellogg, Steven -- Much Bigger Than Martin
  • McCloskey, Robert -- Homer Price
  • Munsch, Robert -- Moira's Birthday
  • Reid, Margarette -- The Button Box
  • Schwartz, David -- How Much Is a Million?
  • Schwartz, David -- If You Made a Million
  • Silverstein, Shel -- "How Many, How Much" in A Light In the Attic
  • Silverstein, Shel -- "Invention" in Where the Sidewalk Ends
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    Fractions:
  • Adler, David A. -- Fraction Fun
  • Berenstain, Stan -- Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money
  • Emberley, Ed-- Ed Emberley's Picture Pie: A Circle Drawing Book
  • Gifford, Scott -- Piece=Part=Portion: Fractions=Decimals=Percents
  • Giganti, Paul -- Each Orange Had 8 Slices: A Counting Book
  • Hutchins, Pat -- The Doorbell Rang
  • Juster, Norton -- The Phantom Tollbooth
  • Leedy, Loreen -- Fraction Action
  • McMillan, Bruce -- Eating Fractions
  • Murphy, Stuart J. -- Give Me Half!
  • Pallotta, Jerry -- Apple Fractions
  • Silverstein, Shel -- A Giraffe and a Half
  • Thompson, Lauren -- One Riddle, One Answer
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    Games and Puzzles:
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- Anno's Math Games (Hajimete deau sugaku no ehon)
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- Anno's Math Games III (Hajimete deau sugaku no ehon)
  • Gardner, Martin -- Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers
  • Godwin, Edward Xavier -- Number Mania: Math Puzzlers for Smart Kids
  • Ho, Oliver -- Amazing Math Magic
  • Lewis, J. Patrick -- Arithme-tickle: An Even Number of Odd Riddle-Rhymes
  • Mitchell, Merle -- Mathematical History: Activities, Puzzles, Stories and Games
  • Pilegard, Virginia Walton -- The Warlord's Puzzle
  • Van Allsburg, Chris -- Jumanji
  • Zaslavsky, Claudia -- Number Sense and Nonsense: Building Math Creativity and Confidence Through Number Play
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    Geometry:
  • Adler, David A. -- Shape Up! Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons
  • Brown, Jeff -- Flat Stanley
  • Burns, Marilyn -- The Greedy Triangle
  • Dodds, Dayle A. -- The Shape of Things
  • Emberley, Ed -- Ed Emberley's Picture Pie: A Circle Drawing Book
  • Erickson, Sheldon -- Looking At Geometry
  • Friedman, Aileen -- A Cloak for the Dreamer
  • Hoban, Tana -- Cubes, Cones, Cylinders and Spheres
  • Hoban, Tana -- Shapes, Shapes, Shapes
  • Neuschwander, Cindy -- Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi
  • Neuschwander, Cindy -- Sir Cumference and the First Round Table
  • Neuschwander, Cindy -- Sir Cumference and the Great Kinght of Angleland
  • Pilegard, Virginia Walton -- The Warlord's Puzzle
  • Silverstein, Shel -- The Missing Piece
  • Small, David -- Paper John
  • Tompert, Ann -- Grandfather Tang's Story
  • Wick, Walter -- A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder
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    Large Numbers:
  • Anno, Masaichiro -- Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar (Tsubo no naka)
  • Birch, David -- The King's Chessboard
  • Gág, Wanda -- Millions of Cats
  • Kasza, Keiko -- Wolf's Chicken Stew
  • McCloskey, Robert -- Homer Price
  • Munsch, Robert -- Moira's Birthday
  • Schwartz, David -- How Much is A Million?
  • Schwartz, David -- If You Made a Million
  • Trivas, Irene -- Emma's Christmas: An Old Song
  • Wells, Robert E. -- Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?
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    Lines and Angles:
  • Neuschwander, Cindy -- Sir Cumference and the Great Kinght of Angleland
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    Measurement and Size:
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- Anno's Math Games
  • Armstrong, Jennifer -- Shipwreck At the Bottom of The World
  • Axelrod, Amy -- Pigs on the Move
  • Beil, Karen -- A Cake All For Me!
  • Carle, Eric -- The Grouchy Ladybug
  • Clement, Rod -- Counting on Frank
  • Florian, Douglas -- Pig Is Big
  • Galdone, Paul -- Three Billy Goats Gruff (Tre Bukkene Bruse)
  • Hoban, Tana -- Is it Larger? Is it Smaller?
  • Hunt, Bernice K. -- Everything Has A Shape and Everything Has A Size
  • Hutchins, Pat -- Happy Birthday, Sam
  • Hutchins, Pat -- Titch
  • Jenkins, Steve -- Big & Little
  • Jenkins, Steve -- Hottest, coldest, highest, deepest
  • Kalan, Robert -- Blue Sea
  • Lionni, Leo -- The Biggest House in the World
  • Lionni, Leo -- Inch By Inch
  • Silverstein, Shel -- The Missing Piece
  • Wick, Walter -- A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder
  • Winthrop, Elizabeth -- Shoes
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    Money:
  • Axelrod, Amy -- Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money
  • Berenstain, Stan -- Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money
  • Brisson, Pat -- Benny's Pennies
  • Brown, Marc -- Arthur's TV Trouble
  • Fawcett, Linda -- Counting On Coins
  • Gill, Shelley -- The Big Buck Adventure
  • Greene, Stephanie -- Owen Foote, Money Man
  • Hoban, Lillian -- Arthur's Funny Money
  • Hoban, Tana -- 26 Letters and 99 Cents
  • Kimmel, Eric -- Four Dollars and Fifty Cents
  • Merrill, Jean -- The Toothpaste Millionaire
  • Mollel, Tololwa -- My Rows and Piles of Coins
  • Munsch, Robert -- Moira's Birthday
  • Ransom, Candice -- The Big Green Pocketbook
  • Schwartz, David -- How Much is a Million?
  • Schwartz, David -- If You Made a Million
  • Thayer, Tanya -- Counting Money
  • Viorst, Judith -- Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday
  • Williams, Rozanne L. -- The Coin Counting Book
  • Zimelman, Nathan -- How the Second Grade Got $8,205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty
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    Multiplication and Division:
  • Aker, Suzanne -- What Comes in 2's, 3's, and 4's?
  • Anno, Masaichiro -- Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar (Tsubo no naka)
  • Berger, Melvin -- Germs Make Me Sick!
  • Birch, David -- The King's Chessboard
  • Dee, Ruby -- Two Ways to Count to Ten: A Liberian Folktale
  • Giganti, Paul -- Each Orange Had 8 Slices: A Counting Book
  • Heller, Ruth -- A Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns
  • Heyward, DuBose -- The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
  • Hillen, Judith -- Marvelous Multiplication and Dazzling Division
  • Hutchins, Pat -- The Doorbell Rang
  • Jenkins, Steve -- Hottest, coldest, highest, deepest
  • Jonas, Ann -- Aardvarks, Disembark!
  • Leedy, Loreen -- 2 x 2 = Boo!: A Set of Spooky Multiplication Stories
  • Low, Joseph -- Mice Twice
  • Murphy, Stuart J. -- Give Me Half!
  • Neuschwander, Cindy -- Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream: A Mathematical Story
  • Pallotta, Jerry -- The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Multiplication Book
  • Pinczes, Elinor J. -- A Remainder of One
  • Ross, Tony -- Centipede's 100 Shoes
  • Silverstein, Shel -- "Lester" in Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • Tang, Greg -- The Best of Times
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    Numbers/Visual:
  • Johnson, Stephen -- City by Numbers
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    Ordinal Numbers:
  • Bishop, Claire -- The Five Chinese Brothers
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    Patterns:
  • Anglund, Joan Walsh -- A Friend is Someone Who Likes You
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- Anno's Counting Book (Kazoete miyo)
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- Anno's Math Games (Hajimete deau sugaku no ehon)
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- Anno's Math Games III (Hajimete deau sugaku no ehon)
  • Anno, Masaichiro -- Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar (Tsubo no naka)
  • Bayer, Jane -- A, My Name is Alice
  • Charlip, Remy -- Fortunately
  • Emberley, Barbara -- Drummer Hoff
  • Ernst, Lisa Campbell-- Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt
  • Godwin, Edward Xavier -- Number Mania: Math Puzzlers for Smart Kids
  • Harris, Trudy -- Pattern Fish
  • Hutchins, Pat -- Rosie's Walk
  • Hutchins, Pat -- The Surprise Party
  • Jocelyn, Marthe -- Hannah's Collections
  • Joslin, Sesyle -- What Do You Say, Dear?
  • Murphy, Stuart J. -- A Pair of Socks
  • O'Neill, Mary Le Duc -- Hailstones and Halibut Bones: Adventures in Color
  • Paul, Ann Whitford -- Eight Hands Round: A Patchwork Alphabet
  • Viorst, Judith -- If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries:
    Poems for Children and Their Parents
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    Place Value:
  • Adler, David -- Roman Numerals
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- Anno's Counting Book (Kazoete miyo)
  • Birch, David -- The King's Chessboard
  • Gág, Wanda -- Millions of Cats
  • Gifford, Scott -- Piece=Part=Portion: Fractions=Deciamls=Percents
  • Hoban, Tana -- Count and See
  • Kasza, Keiko -- Wolf's Chicken Stew
  • Martin, Bill -- Knots on a Counting Rope
  • McKissack, Pat -- A Million Fish -- More or Less
  • Munsch, Robert -- Moira's Birthday
  • Schwartz, David -- How Much is a Million?
  • Schwartz, David -- If You Made a Million
  • Silverstein, Shel -- "Smart" in Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • Trivas, Irene -- Emma's Christmas: An Old Song
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    Probability:
  • Axelrod, Amy -- Pigs at Odds
  • Cushman, Jean -- Do You Wanna Bet?: Your Chance to Find Out About Probability
  • Munsch, Robert -- Moira's Birthday
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    Problem Solving:
  • Anno, Masaichiro -- Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar (Tsubo no naka)
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- Anno's Magic Seeds (Fushigina tane)
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- Anno's Math Games (Hajimete deau sugaku no ehon)
  • Jocelyn, Marthe -- Hannah and the Seven Dresses
  • Lewis, J. Patrick -- Arithme-tickle: An Even Number of Odd Riddle-Rhymes
  • Scieszka, John -- Math Curse
  • Tang, Greg -- The Grapes of Math
  • Tang, Greg -- Math Appeal
  • Tang, Greg -- Math-terpieces: the Art of Problem Solving
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    Shapes:
  • Adler, David A. -- Shape Up! Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons
  • Baker, Alan -- Brown Rabbit's Shape Book
  • Burns, Marilyn -- The Greddy Triangle
  • Coerr, Eleanor -- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
  • Ehlert, Lois -- Color Zoo
  • Emberley, Edward -- Ed Emberley's Big Green Drawing Book
  • Emberley, Edward -- Ed Emberley's Big Orange Drawing Book
  • Emberley, Edward -- Ed Emberley's Picture Pie: A Circle Drawing Book
  • Emberley, Edward -- The Wing on a Flea: A Book About Shapes
  • Hoban, Tana -- Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, and Spheres
  • Hoban, Tana -- Shapes, Shapes, Shapes
  • Paul, Ann Whitford -- Eight Hands Round: A Patchwork Alphabet
  • Ross, Catherine S. -- Squares: Shapes in Math, Science and Nature
  • Schlein, Miriam -- Shapes
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    Sorting:
  • Archambault, John -- A Beautiful Feast for a Big King Cat
  • Reid, Margarette -- The Button Box
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    Spacial Concepts:
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- Anno's Math Games III (Hajimete deau sugaku no ehon)
  • Hoban, Tana -- Exactly the Opposite
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    Subtraction:
  • Asch, Frank -- The Last Puppy
  • Burningham, John -- Mr. Gumpy's Outing
  • Burningham, John -- The Shopping Basket
  • Christelow, Eileen -- Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
  • Christelow, Eileen -- Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree
  • Duke, Kate -- Twenty Is Too Many
  • Giganti, Paul -- How Many Snails?: A Counting Book
  • Godwin, Edward Xavier -- Number Mania: Math Puzzlers for Smart Kids
  • Juster, Norton -- The Phantom Tollbooth
  • Kellogg, Steven -- Much Bigger Than Martin
  • Leedy, Loreen -- Subtraction Action
  • McCourt, Lisa -- Candy Counting: Delicious Ways to Add and Subtract
  • Pallotta, Jerry -- The Hershey's Kisses Subtraction Book
  • Peek, Merle -- Roll Over!: A Counting Song
  • Raffi -- Five Little Ducks
  • Tafuri, Nancy -- Have You Seen My Duckling?
  • Viorst, Judith -- Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday
  • Walsh, Ellen -- Mouse Count
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    Time:
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- All In a Day
  • Becker, Bonny -- Just A Minute
  • Carle, Eric -- The Grouchy Ladybug
  • Hutchins, Pat -- Clocks and More Clocks
  • Kimmel, Eric -- The Rooster's Antlers: A Story of the Chinese Zodiac
  • Maestro, Betsy -- The Story of Clocks and Calendars
  • Nagda, Ann W. -- Chimp Math: Learning About Time From a Baby Chimpanzee
  • Older, Jules -- Telling Time
  • Tannenbaum, Beulah -- Understanding Time: The Science of Clocks and Calendars
  • Wells, Robert -- What's Faster Than A Speeding Cheetah?
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    Understanding Zero:
  • Anno, Mitsumasa -- Anno's Counting Book (Kazoete miyo)
  • Froman, Robert -- Less Than Nothing Is Really Something
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    Whole Numbers:
  • Davies, Nicola -- One Tiny Turtle
  • De Regniers, Beatrice -- So Many Cats!
  • Hutchins, Pat -- The Doorbell Rang
  • Merrill, Jean -- The Toothpaste Millionaire
  • Viorst, Judith -- Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday
  • Compiled Spring 2001/Tuttle
    Revised Fall 2006/Hood

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    Page last modified by Sarah Hood
    Date: 10/9/06
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