Numbers and Counting
Picture Books
- Board Books: Durable titles on sturdy pages designed for little hands that introduce numbers and simple counting concepts.
- Picture Books: A selection of picture books for all ages with different number and counting adventures.
- World Language Materials: A selection of picture books for all ages in various languages.
- Children’s Nonfiction: A selection of titles exploring numbers and simple math concepts designed for younger readers
- Theme Backpacks: Host a storytime at home using these backpacks, which include books, manipulatives, and other resources related to a particular theme.
- STEAM Kits: Explore concepts using these kits, which include books and manipulatives to encourage hands-on exploration.
- Launchpads: Pre-loaded tablets with games and educational activities to help young learners practice their colors.
- DVDs: A selection of DVDs related to learning your numbers. Many titles are based on picture books.
- eContent: Electronic books, audiobooks, free streaming videos, and similar resources related to numbers and counting.
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Mitsumasa Anno
A counting book depicting the growth in a village and surrounding countryside during twelve months.
Keith Baker
Busy little peas engage in their favorite activities as they introduce the numbers from one to 100.
Keith Baker
Big Fat Hen counts to ten with her friends and all their chicks.
Keith Baker
Potato Joe leads the other spuds from the familiar nursery rhyme “One Potato, Two Potato” in various activities, from a game of tic-tac-toe to a rodeo.
Keith Baker
Seven ducklings take a rhyming look at addition as they play games, chase bumblebees, and make noise.
Mac Barnett
The reader is invited to count the animals that have frightened the monkeys off the pages.
Mooove Over!: A Book About Counting by Twos
Karen Magnuson Beil
A trolley driver tries to keep track of how many riders he has on board, but a rude cow on the trolley makes it impossible.
Over in a River: Flowing Out to Sea
Marianne Collins Berkes
This counting book in the style of “Over in the Meadow” presents various riparian habitat animals and their offspring in ten North American rivers, from a mother manatee “and her little calf one” in the St. Johns River to a father river otter “and his little pups ten” in the Mississippi. Endnotes present facts, activities, and related games.
Over in the Arctic: Where the Cold Winds Blow
Marianne Collins Berkes
A counting book in rhyme presents various Arctic animals and their offspring, from a mother polar bear and her “little cub one” to an old father wolf and his “little pups ten.” Includes related facts and activities.
Over in the Forest: Come and Take a Peek
Marianne Collins Berkes
A counting book in rhyme presents various forest animals and their offspring, from a mother beaver and her “little kit one” to a father red fox and his “little kits ten.” Includes related facts and activities.
Over in the Grasslands: On an African Savanna
Marianne Collins Berkes
This grasslands variation of the classic song “Over in the Meadow” introduces animals and their offspring that dwell on the savanna of Africa, from a mother zebra and her “little calf one” to a “cunning father jackal and his little pups ten.” Includes information about the African savanna, a glossary of the animals, activities and other “tips from the author.”
Over in the Jungle: A Rainforest Rhyme
Mariannne Collins Berkes
A counting and singing approach for young children to learn and appreciate the animals of the tropical rainforest.
Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef
Marianne Collins Berkes
The coral reef in this book is like a marine nursery, teeming with mamas and babies! In the age-old way of kids and fish, children will count and clap to the rhythm of “Over in the Meadow” while pufferfish “puff,” gruntfish “grunt” and seahorses “flutter.”
Over on a Desert: Somewhere in the World
Marianne Collins Berkes
A counting book in rhyme that presents various animals and their offspring that dwell in desert environments around the world, from a mother camel and “her little calf one” to a father fennec fox and “his little kits ten.” Includes related facts and activities.
Over on a Desert: Somewhere in the World
Marianne Collins Berkes
A counting book in rhyme that presents various animals and their offspring that dwell in high mountain environments, from a mother llama and her “little cria one” to an emperor penguin, his hen, and their “little chicks ten.” Includes related facts and activities.
Stephanie Calmenson
Mr. Panda, owner of the Panda Palace restaurant, manages to find seating for all his animal patrons on a very busy night.
Eric Carle
Each car on the train has one more zoo animal than the one before, from the first car with an elephant to the last with ten birds.
Eric Carle
Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his ay through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days of the week.
Emma Chichester Clark
Throughout the day, Mimi and her grandmother find everyday items to count from one to ten.
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Eileen Christelow
A counting book in which one by one the little monkeys jump on the bed only to fall off and bump their heads.
Donald Crews
A counting book which shows what can be done with ten black dots – one can make a sun, two a fox’s eyes, or eight the wheels of a train.
Click, Clack, Splish, Splash: A Counting Adventure
Doreen Cronin
While Farmer Brown sleeps, some of the animals who live on the farm go on a fishing expedition.
Dog’s Colorful Day: A Messy Story about Colors and Counting
Emma Dodd
As he goes through the day, Dog gains an increasing number of differently colored spots on his previously white coat.
Pamela Duncan Edwards
A lion cub’s roar frightens away other colorful animals, from one red monkey to eight brown gazelles, that he wants to come play with him – until he encounters nine other lion cubs.
Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On
Lois Ehlert
A counting book depicting the colorful fish a child might see if he turned into a fish himself.
Karen Ehrhardt
Presents an introduction to jazz music and nine well-known jazz musicians, set to the rhythm of the traditional song “This Old Man.” Includes brief facts about each musician.
Cathryn Falwell
Numbers from one to ten are used to tell how members of a family shop and work together to prepare a meal.
Mem Fox
The reader is invited to count goats of many shapes, sizes, hobbies, and professions.
One White Wishing Stone: A Beach Day Counting Book
Doris K. Gayzagian
A girl gathers natural objects to decorate her sandcastle, saving some of them to take back home from the beach.
Susie Ghahremani
Cats of all shapes and sizes scamper, yawn, and stretch across the pages of this playful counting book. And every now and then, some of them pile into the purrfect cat stack!
Bill Grossman
Little sister has no problem eating one hare, two snakes, and three ants, but when she gets to ten peas, she throws up quite a mess.
Virginia Grossman
A counting rhyme with illustrations of rabbits in Native American costume, depicting traditional customs such as rain dances, hunting, and smoke signals.
Anna Grossnickle Hines
A child learns to count with the help of a classic nursery rhyme.
Pat Hutchins
One hunter walks through the forest observed first by two elephants, then by three giraffes, etc.
Pat Hutchins
In rhyming verses, one animal after another neighs, moos, oinks, quacks and makes other appropriate sounds as each eats an apple from the farmer’s tree.
1 2 3: A Child’s First Counting Book
Allison Jay
A little girl awakens to scenes from fairy tales in which she can count familiar characters or objects from one to ten and back again.
Emily Jenkins
In words and pictures, a girl describes the three humans and two cats that live in her house, and details some traits that they share.
Stephen Johnson
Paintings of various sites around New York City – from a shadow on a bridge to a wrought iron gate to the Brooklyn Bridge – depict the numbers from one to twenty-one.
Karen Katz
A loving father counts the number of hugs he gives his baby to say I love you.
John Langstaff
A retelling of an old rhyme about meadow animals and their activities.
20 Big Trucks in the Middle of the Street
Mark Lee
In this book, you can have fun counting the trucks getting stuck in a traffic jam!
Missing Math: A Number Mystery
Loreen Leedy
Everyday activities come to a halt when a town loses its numbers.
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons
Eric Litwin
Pete the Cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.
Laura Ljungkvist
Invites the reader to visit a wide variety of places and count different objects found in each, from fire hydrants in a big city in the morning, through starfish in the ocean during the day, to babies sleeping in a country village at night.
Bill Martin
Numbers from one to one hundred climb to the top of an apple tree in this rhyming chant.
Bruce McMillan
A counting book with photographs of wildflowers illustrating the numbers one through twenty.
Juana Medina
Count from 1 avocado deer to 2 radish mice and all the way up to 10 clementine kitties – which all add up to one big, delicious salad!
Lloyd Moos
Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical performance.
Kim Norman
Animals fall off a speeding sled one by one until only a lonely caribou is left, chasing a giant snowball that has engulfed the falling animals.
K.C. Olson
Introduces numbers and subtraction as the reader counts construction equipment from ten to one.
Kathryn Otoshi
A number/color book reminding us that it just takes one to make everyone count.
Shirley Parenteau
Introduces the numbers one through ten as more and more frogs join in the evening song. Count on these frogs for a luminous read-aloud bursting with lyrical sound play and visual surprises.
Elinor J. Pinczes
One hundred hungry ants head towards a picnic to get yummies for their tummies, but stops to change their line formation, showing different divisions of one hundred, cause them to lose both time and food in the end.
Phyllis Root
In this counting book, increasingly larger groups of animals try to help a duck that is stuck in the sleepy, slimy marsh.
One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab: A Counting by Feet Book
April Pulley Sayre
A counting book featuring animals with different numbers of feet.
10 Trick-or-Treaters: A Halloween Counting Book
Janet Schulman
Ten trick-or-treaters start out on Halloween night, but they disappear one-by-one as they encounter a spider, a vampire, a ghost, and other scary creatures.
One Was Johnny: A Counting Book
Maurice Sendak
One was Johnny, but that’s not all. Count the others who came to call.
Judy Sierra
In this rhymed retelling of a traditional Asian tale, a clever monkey uses her ability to count to outwit the hungry crocodiles that stand between her and a banana tree on another island across the sea.
Erica Sirotich
Counts up ten dogs who are waiting in a shelter, then counts back down again to one as each dog is adopted.
Maggie Smith
On a trip to Maine, the family counts from one baby to twenty fireflies.
Paul Stickland
A group of rollicking dinosaurs counts down from ten to one as it introduces subtraction to the reader.
Philemon Sturges
Two children catch fireflies on a summer night, putting them one by one into a jar until all ten are caught, then they let them out to watch all ten fly away.
Tasha Tudor
Rhyming verse and pictures introduce the numbers from one to twenty.
Ellen Stoll Walsh
Ten mice outsmart a hungry snake.
Don Wood
Ten little piggies dance on a young child’s fingers and toes before finally going to sleep.
Teeth, Tails & Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book
Christopher Wormell
The first portion of the work is a counting book covering the numbers one to twenty with block prints of animals. The second portion of the work has factual information concerning animals.
