Children's Literature: Counting & Numbers

Two shoes, five fingers, ten toes--these are some of the familiar objects presented to be counted.

One hunter walks through the forest observed first by two elephants, then by three giraffes, etc.

Color photographs of letters, numbers, coins, and common objects introduce the alphabet, coinage, and the counting system.

Activities at a birthday party for Clifford, the big red dog, provide opportunities for counting balloons, presents, and other objects from one to ten.

Children will have fun whether they multiply, add, or count their way throughthe math puzzles hiding in the world around them.

Presents fruits and vegetables carved into shapes to teach colors, numbers, letters, shapes, and opposites.

How many jelly beans are enough? How many are too many? Aiden and Emma can't decide. Is 10 enough? How about 1,000? That's a lot of jelly beans. But eaten over a whole year, it's only two or three a day. This giant picture book offers kids a fun and easy way to understand large numbers.

This playful picture book has the answers. It's a fascinating look at wildlife, weight, counting, and comparisons.

In this version of a traditional tale, Senor Calavera arrives at Grandma Beetle's door, ready to take her to the next life, but after helping her count, in English and Spanish, as she makes her birthday preparations, he changes his mind.

On each double-page spread a number from one to ten changes gradually into a familiar object or animal, splitting apart in the process into the appropriate number of parts or pieces.

A number/color book reminding us that it just takes one to make everyone count.

Introduces the numbers one through ten as a little boy describes all the animals he needs to help him get ready for bed.

A boy creates ten paintings in this counting book that also explores the relationship of words within words with die-cut shapes.

Danny practices counting while he and his grandmother watch first ducks, then swans, swim by.

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 up-and-coming artist Blanca Gomez comes a playful, interactive book that shows how a family can be big or small and comprised of people of a range of genders and races.

While a cowboy and his son check the cattle, they count the things that they see.

Presents the days of the week, the months of the year, and numbers from one to ten through the activities of a cat and people in and around a lighthouse.

Children count from one jumping flea to twelve frisky animals until, at last, they reach one too many.

Humorous illustrations depict fourteen Australian animals, introduced in rhyme, along with the numbers from one to fourteen.

Sometimes Russell is just a little bit out of step with the rest of the flock. All the sheep are falling asleep -- except Russell. What's a sheep to do? Russell tries everything ... until, at last, he falls asleep.

Introduces the numbers two, three, and four by enumerating the ways in which they occur in everyday life, from your two eyes and two arms to the four seasons of the year.

Zero, dismayed by her big, empty, roundness, tries to force herself into the shape of the much-admired One, but must finally accept that she can only be Zero.

Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical performance.