Fairy Math Mother

Below is a list of all the books I discuss in my blog posts.

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Blog Booklist

• Alznauer, Amy. The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan. Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2020. [Illustrated by Daniel Miyares] More from Alznauer here.

• Anno, Mitsumasa. Anno’s Magic Seeds. New York City, NY: Philomel Books, 1995. [Illustrated by Mitsumasa Anno]
• Atinuke. Baby Goes to Market. Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick press, 2017. [Illustrated by Angela Brooksbank]
• Burns, Marilyn. The Greedy Triangle. New York City, NY: Scholastic, 1994. [Illustrated by Gordon Silveria]
• Calvert, Pam. The Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2006.
• Cox, Judy. Sheep Won’t Sleep: Counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. New York: Holiday House, 2017.
• Danielson, Christopher. Common Core Math for Parents for Dummies. New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, 2015.
• Danielson, Christopher. How Many? A Counting Book.  Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers, 2018 (Shapes book AND Teacher Guide)
• Danielson, Christopher. Which One Doesn’t Belong. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers, 2016 (Shapes book AND Teacher Guide)
• Demi. One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale. New York City, NY: Scholastic Press, 1997.
• DK Children Publishers. Amazing Visual Math. New York, NY: DK Publishing, 2014.
• Fox, Mem. Let’s Count Goats.  San Diego, CA:Beach Lane Books, 2010. [Illustrated by Jan Thomas]
• Fradkin, Sasha and Bishop, Allison. Funville Adventures. Natural Math, 2017.
• Ghahremani, Susie. Stack the Cats. New York City, NY: Abrams Appleseed, 2017.
• Hoban Tana. So Many Circles, So Many Squares. New York City, NY:Greenwillow Books, 1998.
• Hoban, Tana. Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, and Spheres. New York City, NY: Greenwillow Books, 2000.
• Harper, Dan. Telling Time with Big Mama Cat.  New York: Harcourt, 1998.
  Harshman, Marc. Only One. Cobblehill Books; 1st edition (May 1, 1993)
  Helaine Becker (Author) and Tiemdow Phumiruk (Illustrator). Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13. New York: Henry Holt and Co. , 2018. [Part 1, Part 2]
  Hoban, Tana. Shapes, Shapes, Shapes. New York City, NY: Greenwillow Books,  1986.
• Hong, Lily Toy. Two of Everything. Chicago, IL: Albert Whitman & Company, 1993.
• Hopgood, Tim. Walter’s Wonderful Web. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1996. [Illustrated by Tim Hopgood]
• Hosford, Kate. Infinity and Me Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 2012.
• Kleber, Dori.  More-igami.  Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick press, 2016.
• LaRochelle, David. 1+1=5 and Other Unlikely Additions. Sterling, 2010.
• Limentani, Alison. How much does a ladybug weigh? . Boxer Books, 2016.
• Lin, Grace. The Last Marshmallow, Circle! Sphere, Will it fit? Up to My Knees. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2020.
• Mansfield, Andy & Thomas Flintham. One Lonely Fish. New York: Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2017.
• Menotti, Andrea. How Many Jelly Beans? A Giant Book of Giant Numbers. San Francisco, CA. Chronicle Books, 2012.
• McCallum, Ann. Eat Your Math Homework: Recipes for Hungry minds. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2011.
• McElligott, Matthew. Bean Thirteen.  G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books: New York, 2007.
• McElligott, Matthew. The Lion’s Share: A Tale of Halving Cake and Eating it, Too. New York: Walker and Co., 2009.
• McNamara, Margaret. How many seeds in a pumpkin? New York: Schwartz & Wade,  2007.
• Otoshi, Kathryn. One. San Rafael, California: KO Kids Books, 2008.
• Pappas, Theoni. The Joy of Mathematics: Discovering Mathematics All Around You. World Wide Publishing (2nd edition), 1993.
• Pinczes, Elinor J. Remainder of One. Boston, MA: HMH Books for Young Readers, 1995.
• Rosenfeld, Malke and Gordon Hamilton  Socks are like Pants, Cats are like Dogs, Cary, NC: Delta Stream Media, 2016.
• Santat, Dan. Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! The Cookie Fiasco.  New York: Disney-Hyperion., 2016.
• Sayre, April Pulley. One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab. A Counting by Feet book. United Kingdom: Walker Books Ltd, 2004.
• Schwartz, David M.  G is for Googol. Berkeley, California:  Random House, 1998.
• Schwartz, David M. How Much is a Million? New York: HarperCollins,  2004. [original publication, 1985]
• Schlein, Miriam. More than One, New York City, NY: Greenwillow Books, 1996.
• Schwartz, David M. If You Hopped Like A Frog. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999.
• Tolbert, Ann. Grandfather Tang’s Story  Decorah, IA: Dragonfly Books, 1990.
• Usbourne. Illustrated Elementary Math Dictionary.  Tulsa, OK: EDC, 2010.
• Weltman, Ann.  This is Not a Math Book: A Smart Art Activity Book . Kane Miller, 2015.[Originally published in England by Ivy Kids in 2015].

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