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Disclaimer - This is my personalised list of texts. My purpose for developing this list was to deepen my understanding of rich text and support my teaching of English, History, Geography, Science and Maths. This list isn't a definitive list and may not be accurate.
Also it doesn't reflect the opinions or judgements of my employer.
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Referenced - "Suggested Texts for the English K–10 Syllabus", Christine Fraser's "Books and More Books for Key English Concepts", Lizzie Chase's book lists, Guide to Using Picture Books in Geography K–10, Guide to Using Picture Books in History K–10, online blogs and professional fb group posts. - Shellie Tancred
Number Sense
100 Ways to Celebrate 100 Days - Bruce Goldstone
365 Penguins - Jean-Luc Fromental
Big Numbers: And Pictures that Show Just How Big They Are! - Edward Packard
Can You Count to a Googol? - Robert E. Wells
Dinosaur Deals - Stuart Murphy (equivalent values)
How Big is It? - Ben Hillman (large numbers)
How Many Candles? - Helen Griffith
How Much is a Million? - David Schwartz
If You Made a Million - David Schwartz
Less Than Zero, Stuart Murphy
Little Numbers: And Pictures that Show Just How Little They Are! - Edward Packard
A Million Dots - Andrew Clements
On Beyond a Million - David Schwartz
Zero the Hero - Joan Holub
Zero: Is It Something? Is It Nothing? - Claudia Zaslavsky
Zero Is the Leaves on the Tree - Betsy Franco
Addition
Uno's Garden - Graeme Base
365 Penguins - Jean-Luc Fromental and Joelle Jolivet
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins - Dr. Seuss
The Great Pet Sale - Mick Inkpen
Hardworking Puppies - Lynn Reiser
Leaping Lizards - Stuart Murphy
Safari Park - Stuart Murphy
One Is a Snail, Ten is a Crab - April Pulley Sayre & Jeff Sayre
The Sundae Scoop - Stuart Murphy
Division
The Doorbell Rang - Pat Hutchins
Henry’s 100 Days of Kindergarten - Nancy Carlson
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear - Audrey, Don Wood
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! - Mo Willems
Safari Park - Stuart Murphy
Two Greedy Bears - Mirra Ginsburg
A Remainder of One - Elinor J. Pinczes Divide and Ride - Stuart J. Murphy
Subtraction
Dora’s Chicks - Julie Sykes
Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping - Eileen Christelow
Hardworking Puppies - Lynn Reiser
One Frog Sang - Shirley Parenteau
If You Were a Minus Sign a Math Fun series book by Trisha Shaskin
Safari Park - Stuart Murphy
The Shopping Basket - John Burmingham
Ten Sly Piranhas A Counting Story in Reverse - William Wise
Six Chicks - Henrietta Branford
The Hershey's Kisses Subtraction Book - Jerry Pallotta
Monster Musical Chairs A Math Start series book - Stuart Murphy
Elevator Magic - a Math Start series book - Stuart Murphy
Ten Little Beasties - Rebecca Emberley
Wibbly Pig Has 10 Balloons - Mick Inkpen
One Less Fish Kim - Michelle Toft
Multiplication
365 Penguins - Jean-Luc Fromental and Joelle Jolivet
The Doorbell Rang - Pat Hutchins
Leaping Lizards - Stuart Murphy
Uno's Garden - Graeme Base
Spaghetti and Meatballs For All - Marilyn Burns
Too Many Kangaroo Things To Do! - Stuart J. Murphy
Mr Chicken Goes to Paris - Leigh Hobbs
Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream - A Mathematical Story - Cindy Neuschwander
One Hundred Hungry Ants Elinor J. Pinczes
Each Orange Had 8 Slices: A Counting Book - Paul Giganti, Jr.
The Rabbit Problem - Emily Gravett
The Lion’s Share - Matt McElligot
2 X 2 = Boo! A Set of Spooky Multiplication Stories - Loreen Leedy
Multiplying Menace - The Revenge of Rumpelstiltkskin - Pam Calvert
365 Penguins - Jean-Luc Fromental
The Best of Times - Math Strategies That Multiply - Greg Tang
One Grain of Rice - A Mathematical Folktale - Demi
The Grapes of Math - Mind-Stretching Math Riddles - Greg Tang
Now...for My Next Number! - Songs for Multiplying Fun - Margaret Park
The King's Commissioners - Aileen Friedman & Susan Guevara
Too Many Kangaroo Things To Do! - Stuart Murphy
The King's Chessboard - David Birch
7x9=Trouble! - Claudia Mill
Math Attack! - Joan Horton
Counting
Olivia Counts - Ian Falconer
Five Little Monkeys Play Hide-and-Seek - Eileen Christelow
Follow the line - Laura Ljungkvist
One Bear at Bedtime - Mick Inkpen
One Frog Sang - Shirley Parenteau
One Gorilla - Atsuko Morozumi
One Hundred Days of Cool - Stuart Murphy
The Shopping Basket - John Burmingham
Ten Apples Up On Top - Theo LeSieg
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
City by Numbers - Stephen Johnson
Click, Clack, Splish, Splash: A Counting Adventure - Doreen Cronin
Chicka Chicka 123 - Bill Martin & Michael Sampson
How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten - Jane Yolen & Mark Teague
Potato Joe - Keith Baker
Five Creatures - Emily Jenkins and Tomek Bogacki
My Little Sister Ate One Hare - Bill Grossman
One Hundred Hungry Ants - Elinor Pinczes & Bonnie Mackain
Teeth, Tails, and Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book - Christopher Wormell
Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book - Yuyi Morales
Ten Black Dots - Donald Crews
How Many Bugs in a Box? - A Pop-Up Counting Book - David Carter
Let's Count to 100! - Masayuki Sebe
My Granny Went to Market - A Round-the-World-Counting Rhyme - Stella Blackstone
One Frog Sang - Shirley Parenteau
10 Little Penguins, Jean-Luc Fromental
Anno's Counting Book -Mitsumasa Anno
Anno's Counting House - Mitsumasa Anno
Apple Countdown - Joan Holub
The April Rabbits - David Cleveland
Art 123 - Stefano Zuffi
The Button Box - Margarette Reid
Changes, Changes - Pat Hutchins
Count and See - Tana Hoban
Grandma's Button Box - Linda Williams Aber
How Many Candles? - Helen Griffith
How Many Feet in the Bed? - Diana Hamm
How Many Snails? - Paul Giganti
In My Garden - Ward Schumaker
Is It Larger, Is It Smaller - Tana Hoban
Little Quack's Hide and Seek - Lauren Thompson
Icky Bug Counting Book - Jerry Pallotta
In My Garden - Ward Schumaker
The M&M's Counting Book, - Barbara Barbieri McGrath
Monster Math - Grace Maccarone
Monster Math - Ann Miranda
Nine Ducks Nine - Sarah Hayes
One is a Snail Ten is a Crab - April Pulley Sayre
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons, James Dean
Press Here, Herve Tullet (counting, position-Kinder standard)
Seaweed Soup, Stuart Murphy (matching sets)
Ten Little Elvi - Laura Henson
Ten Little Fish - Audrey Wood
What Comes in 2's, 3's, & 4's, - Suzanne Aker
What's a Pair? What's a Dozen? - Stephen Swinburne
100 Things - Masayuki Sebe
Equal Shmequal - Virginia Kroll
Minnie's Diner: A Multiplying Menu - Dayle Ann Dodds
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons - Eric Litwin
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
How Many Kisses Do You Want Tonight? - Varsha Bajaj
Ten Apples Up On Top! - Dr Seuss
One Bear Lost - Karen Hayles and Jenny Jones
Little Quack's Hide and Seek - Lauren Thompson
Friends You Can Count On - Debbie Tipuna
How Many Kisses Good Night - Jean Monrad Thomas
My Māori Numbers - Tracy Duncan
Next Please - Ernst Jandl and Norman Junge
Nigel's Numberless World - Lucy Coats
Mice Mischief - Caroline Stills
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins - Dr. Seuss
The Follow the Line series - Laura Ljungkvist
Countablock - Christopher Franceschelli
Even and Odd Numbers
My Even Day - Doris Fisher and Dani Sneed
One Odd Day - Doris Fisher and Dani Sneed
Ocean Counting, - Jerry Pallotta
Fractions
The Doorbell Rang - Pat Hutchins
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear - Audrey, Don Wood
Apple Fractions - Jerry Pallotta
Half a Slice of Bread and Butter - Peter Durkin
Give Me Half! - Stuart J. Murphy
Wholey Cow: Fractions Are Fun - Taryn Souder
Pizza Counting - Christina Dobson
Fractions, Decimals, and Percents - David Adler
Fraction Action - Loreen Leedy
Piece = Part = Portion - Scott Gifford
Hershey's Milk Chocolate Fractions Book - Jerry Pallotta
Fraction Fun - David Adler & Nancy Tobin
Working With Fractions - David Adler
The Lion's Share - Matthew McElligot
Full House: An Invitation to Fractions - Dayle Ann Dodd
Polar Bear Math - Ann Nagd
Jump, Kangaroo, Jump - Stuart Murphy
Go Fractions - Judith Stamper
The Wishing Club: A Story About Fractions - Donna Jo Napol
Ordinal Numbers
10 Rubber Ducks - Eric Carle
20 Hungry Piggies - Trudy Harris
Me First! - Michael Escoffier
The First Day of Winter - Denise Fleming
Ten Little Caterpillars - Bill Martin, Jr.
Size
The Bad-Tempered Ladybird - Eric Carle
The Blue Balloon - Mick Inkpen
Hop! Plop! - Corey Schwartz
A House for Birdie - Stuart Murphy
Just Teenie - Susan Meddaugh
Tall - Jez Alborough
Titch - Pat Hutchins
Watch Out Big Bro’s Coming! - Jez Alborough
Who Sank The Boat? - Pamela Allen
Big! - Tim Hopgood
Small, Medium, Large - Emily Jenkins
Just Teenie - Susan Meddaugh
Measurement
Counting on Frank - Rod Clement
The Dragon's Scales -
Good Morning, Good Night - Erin Devlin
Diary of a Baby Wombat - Jackie French
Ernest - Catherine Rayner
Tall - Jez Alborough
Guess How Much I Love You - Sam McBratney
How Big is Big? - Gretel Watson
Little Giant - Simone Lia
Time to Sleep - Annemarie Florian
Twice My Size - Adrian Mitchell
How Big was A Dinosaur? - Anna Milbourne
How Deep is The Sea? - Anna Milbourne
How High is The Sky? - Anna Milbourne
Counting on Frank - Rod Clement
The Warlord's Alarm - Virginia Walton Pilegard
The Warlord's Messengers - Virginia Walton Pilegard
How big is it? A Book All About Bigness - Ben Hillman
How fast is it? A Zippy Book All About Speed - Ben Hillman
How strong is it? A Mighty Book All About Strength - Ben Hillman
Time
The Bad-Tempered Ladybird - Eric Carle
Cluck O’Clock - Kes Gray
Five Minutes Peace - Jill Murphy
My Grandmother’s Clock - Geraldine McCaughrean
One Hundred Days of Cool - Stuart Murphy
What Time is it Mr Crocodile? - Judy Sierra
Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin
While You Are Sleeping - Durga Bernhard
The Bad-Tempered Ladybird - Eric Carle
Cluck O’clock - Kes Gray
A Second Is A Hiccup - Hazel Hutchins
Just a Second - Steve Jenkins
Five Minutes’ Peace - Jill Murphy
Area-Perimeter
Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! - Marilyn Burns
Ernest - Catherine Rayner
Geometry
The Secret Birthday Message - Eric Carle
The Wing On a Flea - Ed Emberley
Seeing Symmetry - Loreen Leedy
Shapes - Patrick George
Square Cat - Elizabeth Schoonmaker
The Shape of My Heart - Mark Sperring
Mouse Shapes - Ellen Stoll Walsh
Measurement Counting on Frank - Rod Clement
Jim and the Beanstalk - Raymond Briggs
A Lion in The Night - Pamela Allen
Nanny Mihi’s Treasure Hunt - Melanie Drewery
Pepetuna - Denise Whitmore
All About Where - Tana Hoban
The Amazing Book of Shapes: Explore Math Through Shapes, Patterns - Lydia Sharman
Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes - Stuart J. Murphy
A Cloak for the Dreamer - Aileen Friedman
Changes, Changes - Pat Hutchins
Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, and Spheres - Tana Hoban
Grandfather Tang's Story - Ann Tompert
The Greedy Triangle - Marilyn Burns
Hamster Champs - Stuart Murphy
Icky Bug Shapes - Jerry Pallotta
If You Were a Polygon - Marcie Aboff
If You Were a Quadrilateral - Molly Blaisdell
The Incredibly Awesome Box - Joanne Rocklin
A Light in the Attic (poem, “Shapes”) - Shel Silverstein
The Magic Mirror Book - Marion Walter
Magic Mirror Tricks - Marion Walter
Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry - Cindy Neuschwander
The Secret Birthday Message - Eric Carle
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes - Tana Hoban
The Silly Story of Goldie Locks and the Three Squares - Grace Maccarone
Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi - Cindy Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table - Cindy Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland - Cindy Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter - Cindy Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone - Cindy Neuschwander
So Many Circles, So Many Squares - Tana Hoban
I Spy Shapes in Art - Lucy Micklethwait
Square Cat - Elizabeth Schoonmaker
Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes - Grace Maccarone
The Village of Round and Square Houses - Ann Grifalconi
When a Line Bends…A Shape Begins - Rhonda Greene
Zachary Zormer, Shape Transformer - Joanne Reisberg
Zoom - Istvan Banyai
Re-Zoom - Istvan Banyai
A Cloak For The Dreamer - Aileen Friedman
Food for Thought -The Complete Book of Concept for Growing Minds - Saxton Freymann & Joost Elffers
Icky Bug Shapes -Jerry Pallotta
Shape by Shape - Suse MacDonald
When a Line Bends a Shape Begins - Rhoda Gowler Greene
If You Were a Polygon Math Fun Series - Marcie Abof
Tyrannosaurus Math - Michelle Markel
Round Is a Mooncake - A Book of Shapes - Roseanne Thong
The Warlord's Puzzle - Virginia Walton Pilegard
Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes - Stuart Murphy
Combo
Mr Archimedes Bath - Pamela Allen (water depth)
Five Creatures - Emily Jenkins (sets)
The Doorbell Rang - Pat Hutchins (fractions)
Nesta and the Missing Zero - Julie Leibrich
Math Curse - Jon Scieszka
Missing Math - A Number Mystery - Loreen Leedy
The number Devil: A mathematical Adventure - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Murderous Maths Numbers: The Key to The Universe - Kjartan Poskitt
Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar - Masaichiro and Mitsumasa Anno
Big Numbers - Mary and John Gribbin
A Story of Natural Numbers - David Demant
Fibonacci’s Cows - Ray Galvin
If The World Was a Village: A Book About The World’s People - David J. Smith
World Watch
Henry’s Map - David Elliot
The Hueys in None the Number - Oliver Jeffers
Nesta and The Missing Zero - Julie Leibrich
Eat Your Math Homework - Ann McCallum
City Numbers - Joanne Schwartz
Probability, Data Analysis, Graphs, Statistics
Pigs at Odds - Amy Axelrod
Probably Pistachio - Stuart J. Murphy
Socrates and the Three Little Pigs - Mitsumasa Anno
A Very Improbable Story - Edward Einhorn
Uno’s Garden - Graeme Base
Tell Me If You Like - Gérard Gréverand
Lemonade For Sale - Stuart J. Murphy
It's Probably Penny - Loreen Leedy
That's a Possibility - A Book about What Might Happen - Bruce Goldstone