Math Picture Books in Kindergarten Math with Confidence

That's why I made sure to include math picture books inKindergarten Math with Confidence: so that you and your child can also be amazed and excited about math. We also have "Math Books of the Week" that you can read together. So you can see them all in one place, I've put in all of the books in this article, with their covers, descriptions, and links to Amazon so you can see them all at once!

Do not be afraid! This book list is not meant to make you stressed out! There are two ways to do this: In kindergarten, you don't need to read every single picture book about math. I think that if you can find a few of them at your library or buy a few of them for yourself and your child, you'll find a whole new way to enjoy math with them.

A Few Tips on Enjoying  Math Picture Books with Your Kids

When you read a math picture book for the first time, don't worry about the math. Just enjoy the story. Then, after you finish reading or during your second reading, come back and talk about math ideas. Mom interrupting you while you're listening to a story is not fun at all.

These math picture books should be on your shelf. You can read them again and again. If you wait a few more months, you might be surprised by what your child notices when she has a better grasp on math.

Enjoy these books with kids of different ages, and don't worry if some of the words go right over some of them. It's not easy to say which age group these picture books are best for.

Only four lessons are taught each week in kindergarten math, so you can read the Math Book of the Week on your fifth day, or just add it to your "read-aloud" pile and enjoy it during your normal read-aloud time.

See if your library is a member of a group that lends out these books in your area. (In Michigan, we can get books from any library in the state.) " Find out if your library has a service like Hoopla or Overdrive that you can use to get books. In this case, digital picture books aren't as good as printed ones, but they're better than nothing at all.

YouTube has videos of people reading some of these books.

There are five of my favorite items marked for you to look at if you want to buy just a few. I hope this helps! If you want to start a collection of math picture books, start with these books. They're worth reading again.

If this list helps you start reading math picture books with your child, I'm glad. :-)

Links to the math picture books in this post are affiliate links. If you buy something through them, I will get a small cut of the money without you having to pay more.

 

Picture Books about the Numbers to 20

Where’s The Pair?

By Becca Teckentrup

This rhyming picture book asks kids to find the animal pairs that go together on each page.

Ten Flashing Fireflies

By Philemon Sturges and illustrated by Anna Vojtech

Their goal is to catch and let go of 10 fireflies, so they count backwards from 1 to 10.

Birdsongs

By Betsy Franco and illustrated by Steve Jenkins

This beautiful book has bird songs that start at 10 and go down from there. Beginning: The book starts off with the sound of a woodpecker 10 times, and then the sound of a dove 9 times. Counts of the number of times each bird makes its noise are written out in the text.

Zero is the Leaves on the Tree

By Betsy Franco and illustrated by Shino Arihara

This beautiful book shows the number zero in a variety of seasonal settings that are familiar to kids. Following this, help your child think of more ways to describe zero: It's the amount of dog food that's left in the bowl after Rocky eats everything.

Ten Black Dots

By Donald Crews

The illustrations and rhymed text in this simple counting book show the numbers from 1 to 10 with black dots in different places. A fox's eyes are made of two black dots, and the wheels on a train have eight black dots.

Albert Keeps Score

By Daphne Skinner

If his sister checks out 4 library books, Albert makes sure that he checks out 4 library books, too. If she has a tea party, he has a tea party, too. Albert realizes that not all things in life have to be the same at the end of the story, which is very sweet.

Lyle Walks the Dogs

By Bernard Waber and illustrated by Paulis Waber

 

In Lyle, a kind crocodile, he is very happy to walk the dogs for his clients. It will be a long time before he has to walk 10 dogs. Enjoy this sweet and silly book with your child as you count the number of dogs on each page and look for the numerals on each page.

Twenty Big Trucks in the Middle of the Street

By Mark Lee and illustrated by Kurt Cyrus

In this fun picture book, you'll learn about how a broken-down ice cream truck causes a traffic jam of 20 cars and trucks. One by one, the rhythmic and rhyming text adds up the number words up to 20.

1 to 20, Animals Aplenty

By Katie Viggers

There are silly number rhymes like "1 fox in a pair of socks." This book helps kids learn the written numbers from 1 to 20.

Tally Cat Keeps Track

By Trudy Harris and illustrated by Andrew N. Harris

It tells the story of a competitive alley cat who loves to use tally marks to see how well he does against his friends.

Picture Books about Skip-Counting

How Many Feet in the Bed?

By Diane Johnston Hamm and illustrated by Kate Salley Palmer

People in the family keep getting into bed. A little girl is counting by twos to figure out how many feet are in her bed. It's time to find out how many feet are in your own family after you read the book.

Eggs and Legs: Counting by Twos

By Michael Dahl

She looks for her chicks as they run all over the barnyard, and she wants to find them. It looks like an egg with two legs sticking out of the bottom. The rhyming text counts the number of legs by twos. As you read, point out the dots and numerals at the bottom of each page that match.

Toasty Toes: Counting by Tens

By Michael Dahl

This simple book shows how to count by 10s with bare feet at the beach. Ask your family members to take off their socks after you read the book with your child. Then, have your child count all the toes in your family by 10s.

Picture Books about Shapes and Patterns

Sort It Out

By Barbara Mariconda and illustrated by Sherry Rogers

Packy the Packrat has a lot of things, and his mother is fed up with him having so much. (Maybe you can think of something that is like this?) It gives you and your child a chance to guess the name of each category before the next page shows it. Also, there's a fun story that you can find in the illustrations. (Packy's sister is up to something, but we don't know what).

When a Line Bends…A Shape Begins

By Rhonda Gowler Greene and illustrated by James Kaczman

In this book, you read about one shape at a time with a short poem that describes the shape and lists many examples that you've seen. It shows each real-life shape, so have your child look for them as you read.

Shapes, Shapes, Shapes

By Tana Hoban

This wordless book is filled with pictures of everyday things. It gives your child a chance to practice finding shapes in the real world.

What Is Symmetry in Nature?

By Bobbie Kalman

Beautiful pictures of butterflies, crabs, dragonflies, people, and more show that nature is symmetrical. Do this with your child as you read the book together.

Left, Right, Emma!

By Stuart J. Murphy

It's Grandparents Day, and Emma has been chosen to lead the march. She doesn't know how to tell left from right, though. Emma's teacher ties a red string around her wrist to show which hand she has, and she ends up leading the parade.

Pattern Fish

By Trudy Harris

The rhyming text gently encourages children to look for different patterns in the fish that are shown. As soon as you're done reading the book with your child, have him look at the edges of each page more closely. In each border, he will see that the pattern matches the pattern on the fish on that page. This is what he will find.

Picture Books about Addition

If You Were a Plus Sign

By Trisha Speed Shaskan and illustrated by Francesca Carabelli

This book shows a lot of different addition situations with bright-colored, silly animals. As you read, talk to your child about how the pictures and text match up with the equations on the page.

Domino Addition

By Lynette Long

This book uses dominoes to show how to add things together. On each page, it asks kids to find dominoes with a certain number of spots on them. When someone asks, "Which dominoes have FOUR spots?"

Quack and Count

By Keith Baker

They look like they were made out of paper. A different set of 7 ducks is shown on each page: 6 and 1, 5 with 2, and so on. As you read, talk about how the illustrations match the text. This is a good way to learn about the book.

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