Children's Books for Parents and Teachers - book reviews and suggestions for parents and teachers.
Math

It hasn’t been that many years since a math textbook was about the only way for children to learn important math concepts and vocabulary. Today, storybooks, wordless picture books, folktales, interactive books, poetry anthologies, and chapter books take children on wonderful math discoveries. The following books introduce and reinforce the concepts of measurement, shapes, number sense and counting, fractions, problem solving, and an infinite number of other math skills! Their engaging illustrations, examples, and flashes of humor make complex math ideas easier to figure out and remember. Use these books to make math accessible to more students, inspire them with the power of math, and open doors to further study. Although we have grouped these books in grade level categories, many can be adapted up or down.

Water Hole

In the tradition of his best-selling alphabet book, Animalia, author and illustrator GraemeBase takes young readers on an exhilarating journey of discovery with an ingenious fusion of counting book, puzzle book, storybook, and art book. From the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and the deserts of outback Australia, the animals come together to drink from the water hole. But their water supply is diminishing. What’s going on? Each sumptuous landscape illustration conceals hidden animal pictures for readers to find as …


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An illustrated children’s book that helps teach basic fraction concepts using colorful illustrations and a whimsical story line about a pretty crazy day in the life of one “whole” cow.


Zoom

This wordless book demonstrates that a simple scene is not always what it seems! It begins with a close-up image of a rooster’s comb. Each successive image provides a more distant perspective, revealing that each picture is a small part of a larger scene — farm children watching the rooster, aerial views of the children and farm, and so on. As the imaginary lens pulls farther and farther away, we see that the farm scene and children are actually a toy farm set being played with by a child, the …