Pamela Conn Beall, Susan Hagen Nipp
Buy here. From the best-selling creators of Wee Sing(r) comes a brand-new line designed to teach elementary concepts to young kids through music and song. Each Wee Sing(r) and Learn package contains a 32-page book and a 20-minute cassette focusing on a specific concept-like numbers or colors-using a kid-friendly theme-like sea creatures or farm animals. Educators have long known that there is no better tool than music for teaching young children. Now, Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp have taken their experience as elementary teachers and matched it with the same musical sensibilities that have charmed and delighted both kids and their parents for almost 25 years.
Travel under the sea for some fabulous fun with numbers. Meet colorful characters-from one giant whale to twelve tiny angelfish. In addition to its own related song and picture, each number will be spoken aloud and counted up to, making for a musical adventure that teaches while it entertains.
Eileen Christelow
Buy here. As soon as they say good night to Mama, the five little monkeys start to jump on their bed. But trouble lies ahead as, one by one, they fall off and hurt themselves.
Donald Crews
Buy here. First published in 1968, Ten Black Dots is a counting book, a book of simple rhymes, and a book of everyday objects.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Buy here. It's hard to be five. Just yelled at my brother. My mind says do one thing. My mouth says another.
It's fun to be five! Big changes are here! My body's my car, and I'm licensed to steer.
Learning not to hit? Having to wait your turn? Sitting still? It's definitely hard to be five. But Jamie Lee Curtis's encouraging text and Laura Cornell's playful illustrations make the struggles of self-control a little bit easier and a lot more fun!
This is the sixth inspired book from the #1 New York Times best-selling team of Today I Feel Silly: & Other Moods That Make My Day and I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self Esteem.
Paul Giganti
Buy here. If each orange has 8 slices and each slice has 2 seeds, how many seeds are there in all?You'll have fun wether you multiply, add or count your way through the math puzzles hiding in the world all around you.
In this companion volume to How Many Snails?, dynamic illustrations and appealing words combine to introduce beginning math concepts and reinforce visual literacy.
Barbara Barbieri McGrath
Buy here. This yummy counting book teaches the numbers 1 through 12, the six colors of the "M&M's" Chocolate Candies, and three primary shapesthe square, circle, and triangle. Young readers are introduced to simple math and even learn the sets of 12. Full color.
Ifeoma Onyefulu
Buy here. This is a concept book to teach and delight. As a young African boy travels to visit his grandmother, he passes through the village market, where he sees lots of things Granny would like— four brooms, five hats, six necklaces, seven musical instruments, and so on. Stunning photographs taken in Emeka's southern Nigerian village illustrate this heartwarming story. "A wonderful multidimensional story with universal appeal." — School Library Journal
Dr. Seuss
Buy here. Since 1961, Ten Apples up on Top has been helping preschoolers learn to count and read simultaneously. Simple illustrations and even simpler rhymes make this apple-balancing competition between a dog, a tiger, and a lion a fun, easy place to practice sight words and phonics. Siblings can even take turns reading phrases like "Seven apples up on top. I am so good they will not drop." The inevitable tumbling crash is a great climax for busy toddlers to enjoy, and parents will appreciate the cooperative lesson the last page offers. (Preschool to early reader) Jill Lightner
|