MATH: Our Favorite Picture Book Read-alouds
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I read dozens of picture books every month with my three children (12, 10, 8). This list includes only the very best math picture books we read together. And while all the books below are wonderful and highly recommended, I have starred (*) our very favorites, many of which we purchased to enjoy again and again. We hope you enjoy all these books as much as we have!
Click here for posts that talk in more depth about selected math picture books and for math activities related to those books.
This list is continually updated. Some books appear under more than one topic heading.
General (Multiple Topics)
- Beast Academy Math Guides (graphic novels explaining and exploring math concepts)
- Bedtime Math (see this post)
- MathStart Series
Number Sense
- The History of Counting*
- How Many?* (counting)
- Zero the Hero (properties of zero)
- King's Chessboard* (number, measurement, exponential growth)
- Less Than Zero (a rare children's book about negative numbers!)
- Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar (factorials)
- Betcha! Estimating (estimation)
Money
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication & Proportions/Ratios
- 2 X 2 = Boo: A Set of Spooky Multiplication Stories
- One Hundred Hungry Ants (factors, multiplication, division)
- Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream
- The Best of Times (multiplication)
- How Much Does a Ladybug Weigh? (measurement, ratio)
- How Long Is a Whale? (measurement, ratio)
- Sea Squares (multiplication, square numbers)
Division & Fractions
- A Remainder of One (division, factors)
- The Cookie Fiasco (fractions, division)
- Eating Fractions
- Divide and Ride
- The Doorbell Rang (division)
Geometry
- The Librarian Who Measured the Earth* (measurement, geometry)
- Which One Doesn't Belong?* (geometry)
- Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! (area and perimeter)
- Grandfather Tang's Story (tangrams)
- The Greedy Triangle (polygons)
- Mummy Math (3-D shapes)
- Sir Cumference and the First Round Table (my favorite of the Sir Cumference tales)
- Seeing Symmetry*
- The Librarian Who Measured the Earth* (measurement, geometry)
- How Big Is a Foot? (measurement)
- Just a Second*
- Lifetime: The Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives*
- Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
- Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! (area and perimeter)
- King's Chessboard* (number, measurement, exponential growth)
- How Much Does a Ladybug Weigh? (measurement, ratio)
- How Long Is a Whale? (measurement, ratio)
- Lines, Bars and Circles: How William Playfair Invented Graphs
Time
Statistics & Probability
Here are links to all our favorite picture book read-alouds by subject:
- History & Social Science Picture Books (includes biography)
- Math Picture Books
- Science & Nature Picture Books
- Poetry & Shakespeare Picture Books
- Art & Music Picture Books
- Audiobooks for the Whole Family
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