What are some children's books that go along with math lessons?

Question

Grades K-3. Please give me something other than The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

What about books that are not geared towards math but they can be intergrated into a math lesson?

Answer 1

Children's Suggested Books that Relate to Mathematics

Aliki. (1985). Dinosaurs are different. New York: Crowell.
Anno, M. (1982). Anno's counting house. New York: Philomel Books.
Anno, M. (1984). Anno's flea market. New York: Philomel Books.
Anno, M. (1986). Anno's counting book. New York: Harper & Row Junior Books.
Anno, M. (1987). Anno's math games. New York: Philomel Books.
Anno, M. (1989). Anno's math games II. New York: Philomel Books.
Anno, M. (1991). Anno's math games III. New York: Philomel Books.
Anno, M. (1983). Anno's mysterious multiplying jar. New York: Philomel Books.
Briggs, R. (1980). Jim and the beanstalk. New York: New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan.
Burton, V. L. (1967). Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Carle, E. (1989). The very hungary caterpillar. New York: Putnam Berkley Group.
Carroll, L. (1981). Alice in wonderland and through the looking glass. New York: Putnam Publishing Group.
Cleary, B. (1982). Ralph S. Mouse. New York: William Morrow & Co.
Clement, R. (1991). COUNTING ON FRANK. Milwaukee: Gareth Stevens Publishing.
Crawford, T. (1970a). Betsy the babysitter. Mahwah, NY: Troll Associates.
Crawford, T. (1970b). Sticky Stanley. Mahwah, NY: Troll Associates.
Cummings, P. (1991). Clean your room, Harvey Moon! New York: Bradbury Press.
Davis, D. F. (1979). There's an elephant in the garage. New York: E. P. Dutton.
Day, A. (1989). Carl goes shopping. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Dahl, R. (1982). The BFG. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
de Paola, T. (1978). The popcorn book. New York: Holiday House.
Duffy, B. (1990). The math wiz. New York: Viking Press.
Griffin, R., & Clyne, M. (1988). Books you can count on. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Educational Books.
Hoopes, L. L. (1991). My own home. New York: Harper Collins Publishers.
Joyce, W. (1985). George shrinks. New York: Harper & Row.
McDonald, C. C. (1990). Nightwaves. New York: Cobblehill Books.
Morris, A. (1989). Hats, hats, hats. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books.
Munsch, R. (1980). The paper bag princess. Toronto: Annick Press.
Myers, W. D. (1990). The mouse rap. New York: Harper & Row.
O'Keefe, S. H. (1989). One hungry monster. Boston,: Little, Brown & Co.
Pienkowski, J. (1983). Sizes. Berginfield, NJ: Puffin Books.
Polacco, P. (1990). THUNDER CAKE. New York: Philomel Books.
Shapiro, A. (1978). Squiggly Wiggley's surprise. Los Angeles: Price/Stern/Sloan Publishers.
Slobodkina, E. (1968). Caps for sale: A tale of a peddler, some monkeys and their monkey business. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
Swift, J. (1983). Gulliver's travels. New York: William Morror & Co.
Tompert, A. (1990). GRANDFATHER TANG'S STORY. New York: Philomel Books.
Twohill, M. (1991). Superbowl upset. New York: Bradbury Press.
Viorst, J. (1980). Alexander who used to be rich last Sunday. New York: Macmillian.
White, E. B. (1945). Stuart Little. New York: Harper & Row Publishers.
Wiseman, B. (1970). Morris goes to school. New York: Harper & Row.
Wulffson, D. L. (1989). More incredible true adventures. New York: Cobblehill Books.

Answer 2

Math Curse by Jon Scieszka and Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math Adventure, Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter (Math Adventures), and more by Cindy Neuschwander

Answer 3

There are SO MANY! Go to Amazon and do a search on children's math books. That will keep you busy for awhile.

Answer 4

Yes, as Jennifer said above, Sir Cumfrence is a great book. There are sequels to it too.

There is also a really fun Hershey chocolate bar fraction book too. (Amazon --> Children's books ---> Search Hershey)

Good luck.