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Alice and aldo

Lester, Alison

During their day, Alice and Aldo work their way through the alphabet. They do all kinds of fun things like quacking with the ducks, making milkshakes, and swinging over the flowers. By the end of the day Alice and Aldo are ready for bed.

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alphabet, animals, art, cat, clothing, counting, dancing, duck, family, flowers, food, helping, horse, numbers, nutrition, parents, play, pretend, rabbit, responsibilities, sequence, sleep, telephone, water, whale

Disney's elegant abc book

Jefferds, Vincent

All of the Disney characters in this book explain the ABCs through rhythm and fun.

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alphabet, colors, counting, humor, nonverbal communication, numbers, rhyme, sequence, storytelling, verbal communication

Another important book

Brown, Margaret Wise

Learn about all of the important things in early childhood from ages one through six. At one, you've found your nose and discovered your toes. By five and six, you've learned some tricks.

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aging, baby, birth, body parts, counting, dancing, exercise, growing up, health, jumping, learning, numbers, playing, running, self confidence, self esteem, sequence, uniqueness, walking

Millions of cats

Gag, Wanda

An old man and woman live in a very nice, clean house, but they are very lonely until the day the old man brings hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats home.

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aging, animals, cat, counting, family, feelings, fight, numbers, sadness, travel

On halloween night

Wolff, Ferida

An adventurous travel through Halloween night which uses thirteen holiday objects such as crows, witches, and bats describe the scary evening.

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adventures, birds, counting, ghosts, halloween, holidays, moon, night, nonverbal communication, numbers, owl, sounds, traditions, witches

Jackie's lunch box

Hines, Anna Grossnickle

While Jackie's sister is at school, Jackie is lonely because she must play by herself. When it is lunchtime, Jackie gets out her lunchbox and eats with her mom. Then Jackie takes a nap until her sister comes home. When her sister gets home, she has a surprise for Jackie.

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adventures, counting, dolls, family, food, helping, nutrition, parents, play, school, siblings, sleep

One horse waiting for me

Mullins, Patricia

Beautiful pictures of horses guide the reader through the numbers one to twelve, with each group of horses engages in a different activity. Colorful pictures and a continuous rhyme make counting fun.

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adventures, animals, counting, horse, numbers, rhyme, sequence

What is a wise bird like you doing in a silly tale like this?

Shulevitz, Uri

The silly town of Pickleberry is full of nonsense. The emperor treats his bird better than his own brother, who is his janitor. He sends his brother out on an errand, not knowing he was tricked into doing a favor for the bird. As Lou escapes, a salesman gets a hold of him. He escapes again by reciting his nonsense tales of Pickleberry. He finally reaches his Aunt Millie and continues to recite and pass on his side of the story, a lot of nonsense!

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adventures, animals, birds, careers, citizen, counting, earthquake, entertainment, family, humor, maps, market, money, nonverbal communication, pretend, royalty, siblings, storytelling, verbal communication

Peepo!

Ahlberg, Janet//Ahlberg, Allan

A baby boy watches his family do lots of activities all day long.

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activities, baby, counting, family, five senses, growing up, nonverbal communication, observation, verbal communication, vision

The cheerios counting book

McGrath, Babra Barbieri

Have fun with your cereal, even after breakfast time! Learn to count using Cheerios cereal. First, count Cheerios from one to ten, then count Cheerios in groups of ten. A different fruit accompanies the cereal on each page.

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activities, classification, colors, counting, critical thinking, encouragement, food, fun, learning, math, numbers, nutrition, pattern, photograph, practice, rhythm, sequence, shapes, skills

Barn cat: A counting book

Saul, Carol P.

Barn Cat is looking for something out of the red barn door. She is noticing all the beautiful animals surrounding the barn. The nature activities of butterflies, leaping pups, and buzzing bees give Barn Cat quite an eventful day.

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activities, animals, barn, bee, birds, cat, colors, counting, cricket, decision making, dragonfly, farm, flowers, grasshopper, insects, math, nature, nonverbal communication, rhyme, sequence, sounds, sparrow, swallow, tree, verbal communication

More m & m's math

McGrath, Barbara

M & M candy characters guide you through the wonderful world of math as you learn the concepts of graphing, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and ordinal numbers. The best part is that you get to eat the materials you're working with. Remember not to eat too many!

The eensy-weensy spider

Hoberman, Mary Ann

Travel beyond the waterspout -- out into the garden, pond, brook, shoe store, and even the park with this determined spring-loving spider. Sing the all-time classic tune or just read with rhythm!This book will catch you in its colorful web and keep you on your toes as you advance beyond the traditional limits.

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acceptance, accidents, accomplishment, activities, adventures, affection, amphibians, anticipation, baby, bath, bedtime, beetle, birds, bodies of water, body parts, brook, bully, butterfly, caring, caterpillar, change, climbing, clothing, colors, community, companion, compromise, confidence, conflict resolution, cooperation, counting, courage, curiosity, cycle, dancing, decision making, determination, direction, discovery, dragonfly, duck, environment, exercise, family, fish, flowers, frog, fun, garden, grasshopper, injury, insects, instruments, language, morning, moving, music, nature, numbers, parade, parents, park, plants, pond, practice, rain, rhyme, routine, seasons, sharing, shopping, skipping, sleep, song, spider, spring, success, sun, swimming, travel, verbal communication, walking, weather, worm

How many snails?

Gigante, Paul Jr.

Learn to count the number of objects in a scene. How many snails do you see?

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counting, critical thinking, numbers, sequence

Ten for me

Mariconda, Barbara

Two friends take off on a butterfly hunt, only to find themselves tangled in a mathematics net! You will be drawn in as the narrator Rose, and her friend Ed, race to see who can catch the most butterflies on this addition adventure. How many in all? "Let's add them again!" shout the butterfly hunters. Who will win? Ten for Me makes math fun, easy, and entertaining, while adding a touch of the natural world into cross-curricular education.

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activities, butterfly, counting, games, garden, insects, learning, math, nature, science, sequence

Hands down counting by fives

Dahl, Michael

Learn to count by fives through artistic handprints made by children. Students use handprints to create leaves, butterflies, and turkeys, as well as other objects. Count along with the fingers from five to fifty. Dominoes at the bottom of each page show another way to count.

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activities, art, author's note, awareness, classification, colors, concepts, counting, critical thinking, education, fun, goal setting, learning, math, nonverbal communication, numbers, science, sequence

Multiply on the fly

Slade, Suzanne

From pirate bugs to walking sticks to sturdy soldier ants, children will love learning about the world's insects in Multiply on the Fly! Following in the footsteps of What's New at the Zoo? and What's the Difference?, this rhythmic book teaches multiplication in a way that will make children bug you for more. Teeming with fun facts, readers will multiply with a variety of insects, including daring dragonflies, hungry honeybees, and lovely Luna moths. The For Creative Minds section in the back of the book keeps the fun rolling with facts about the insect life cycle, matching insect activities, and multiplication guides to make anyone a multiplication master.

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ant, bee, bug, counting, cycle, dragonfly, insects, learning, math, moth, nature, science, sequence

12 ways to get to 11

Merriam, Eve

There are many different ways to count to eleven, because the number eleven is always missing.

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animals, colors, counting, food, numbers, nutrition, sequence

Hooray for fish!

Cousins, Lucy

Come travel along with Little Fish to meet his many friends. As we count, identify colors, and look for opposites among the many examples, we learn it is okay to have friends different from you.

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