Kids Book Index
Christopher Danielson, illustrated by Asha Belk
A photographic picture book explores the different ways people can count. It is built to prompt conversation about mathematical structures and the strategies used to organize quantities. By presenting more than one approach to counting, the book centers the questions and thinking involved in deciding how a collection can be counted.
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Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles: A Curious Counting BookSteve Jenkins, Robin PageThis nonfiction counting book uses unusual animal and insect body features to explore numbers in nature. It moves from one through ten, pairing each number with creature characteristics such as ears, hearts, teeth, eyes, spines, and tentacles. Examples include the praying mantis’s single ear and a nautilus with ninety retractable tentacles. Later pages extend to larger numbers, and a visual index provides further details about each animal’s size, range, and diet.Science, Technology, and the Natural WorldOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Sam SortsMarthe Jocelyn, illustrated by Marthe JocelynSam has one hundred belongings in a heap and begins arranging them into groups. The task becomes complicated when the same object belongs in several categories: a penguin can join both black-and-white things and things with wings, while a round rock can also belong with rocks. Sam’s attempt to organize the collection turns into an exploration of counting and overlapping categories.Ages 05–07Lexile Text Measure 190LATOS Book Level 1.7On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
One Million Trees: A True StoryKristen Balouch, illustrated by Kristen BalouchIn this autobiographical picture book, Kristen Balouch recounts a childhood trip to British Columbia with her family and their dog. They join a crew replanting trees at a logging site after trees have been cut down. The family lives in a tent for forty days, working each day to plant a new forest. Their work eventually totals one million trees.Ages 05–07ATOS Book Level 3.0AR Interest Level LG K-3On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details