It’s never too early to teach your little one to start counting. These recommended children’s books about numbers will help you do just that.
Once I had gotten my twins reading books about letters and the alphabet, the next thing to do was to introduce them to numbers and math activities. They recognized letters pretty well, but would they do the same with numbers?
Sure, they recited “one, two, three” (or some cute variation of it), but I wanted them to get a hang of various math concepts.
As usual, I turned to children’s books about numbers — fun ones with the simple purpose of introducing numbers and counting along.
Ten, Night, Eight is a sweet book from my cousin that quickly became a family favorite. Five Little Monkeys is a great story with a familiar rhyme. And One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab is an engaging book about counting animal feet.
These also include children’s books about numbers past 10. Because at some point, kids will recite one to ten easily. They may even get the concept of number values up to 10. That’s when you can start challenging them to count even more, and these books will help you do just that.
Take a look at these books to make teaching numbers fun for you and your toddler:
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Children’s books about numbers
1 Big Salad: A Delicious Counting Book by Juana Medina
Eight Animals on the Town by Susan Middleton Elya and Lee Chapman
Quack And Count by Keith Baker
We All Went on Safari by Laurie Krebs and Julia Cairns
The Pickwicks’ Picnic by Carol Brendler and Renée Kurilla
Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh
100 Bugs! by Kate Narita and Suzanne Kaufman
The Chicken Problem by Jennifer Oxley and Billy Aronson
Two Dogs on a Trike by Gabi Snyder and Robin Rosenthal
First 100 Numbers by Roger Priddy
Have You Seen My Dragon? by Steve Light
365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental and Joëlle Jolivet
(Check out these children’s books about penguins.)
One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J Pinczes and Bonnie MacKain
Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno
Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews
On the Launch Pad by Michael Dahl, Derrick Alderman, and Denise Shea
Ten Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gerth and Laura Huliska-Beith
Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree by Eileen Christelow
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin and James Dean
One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab by April Sayre
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