Picture Books

For
Literature in Math
Book in APA Format Synopsis Common Core Standard
Addressed
Harris, T., & Johnson, B. (1999). 100 days
of school. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook
Press.
A silly story that gives addition problems
that equal 100 with real life situations kids
run into. Example if you find a bug with
50 legs on one side and 50 on the other
what do you get? 100 legs and a
centipede.
CCSS.Math.Content.1.NBT.C.4
Add within 100, including adding a two-
digit number and a one-digit number,
and adding a two-digit number and a
multiple of 10, using concrete models or
drawings and strategies based on place
value, properties of operations, and/or
the relationship between addition and
subtraction; relate the strategy to a
written method and explain the
reasoning used. Understand that in
adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens
and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes
it is necessary to compose a ten.

Dahl, M., & Trover, Z. (2006). Tail
feather fun: Counting by tens.
Minneapolis, Minn.: Picture Window
Books.
The woodpeckers in this story each have
ten tail feathers and the reader gets to
count backwards by tens as the
woodpeckers each fly away.
CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.A.1
Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
Curry, D. (2000). More bugs? Less bugs?
Mankato, Minn.: Capstone Curriculum
Pub.
With real life bugs in the pictures the
reader sees addition and subtraction
illustrated. The story not only uses the
pictures as the symbol in a problem but
CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.A.1
Use addition and subtraction within 20
to solve word problems involving
situations of adding to, taking from,
also writes out the problems in sentence
format.
putting together, taking apart, and
comparing, with unknowns in all
positions, e.g., by using objects,
drawings, and equations with a symbol
for the unknown number to represent the
problem.

Long, L. (1996). Domino addition.
Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge.
This book has the reader look at dominos
and either find dominos that equal a
certain number or uses a domino to create
an addition problem.
CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.A.1
Use addition and subtraction within 20
to solve word problems involving
situations of adding to, taking from,
putting together, taking apart, and
comparing, with unknowns in all
positions, e.g., by using objects,
drawings, and equations with a symbol
for the unknown number to represent the
problem.
Leedy, L. (2005). The great graph contest.
New York: Holiday House.
The story follows a lizard named Gonk in
comic book style as he polls his friends
for different questions and things they
come across in their day to make all
different types of graphs.
CCSS.Math.Content.2.MD.D.10
Draw a picture graph and a bar graph
(with single-unit scale) to represent a
data set with up to four categories. Solve
simple put-together, take-apart, and
compare problems
1
using information
presented in a bar graph.
Weber, R. (2004). Building with shapes.
Minneapolis, Minn.: Compass Point
Books.
This book takes the reader through the
world looking at buildings and how all
buildings are made of shapes.
K.G.A.2
Correctly name shapes regardless of
their orientations or overall size.
Irons, C., & Owen, C. (2003). Ten
friendly frogs: A story about addition and
subtraction. New York: Wright
Group/McGraw-Hill.
Through rhymed text we follow ten frogs
as they jump around the swamp having
the reader add and subtract the frogs to
see how many are left.
CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.A.1
Use addition and subtraction within 20
to solve word problems involving
situations of adding to, taking from,
putting together, taking apart, and
comparing, with unknowns in all
positions, e.g., by using objects,
drawings, and equations with a symbol
for the unknown number to represent the
problem.
Irons, C., & Dale, R. (2003). The giant's
toy store: A story about equal groups.
New York: Wright Group/McGraw-Hill.
Through rhymed text Jack and Jill take a
walk through the Giants toy store. The
illustrations put the toys in groups. At the
end of the story there are worksheets to
compare the toys and group them and find
missing numbers.
K.CC.C.6
Identify whether the number of objects
in one group is greater than, less than, or
equal to the number of objects in
another group, e.g., by using matching
and counting strategies.
Irons, C., & Gardner, M. (2003). The icky
stick trap: A story about subtraction.
Hawthorn? Vic.: Shortland Mimosa.
Through rhymed text the reader watches
groups of bugs escape the spiders trap
subtracting along the way.
CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.A.1
Use addition and subtraction within 20
to solve word problems involving
situations of adding to, taking from,
putting together, taking apart, and
comparing, with unknowns in all
positions, e.g., by using objects,
drawings, and equations with a symbol
for the unknown number to represent the
problem.
Irons, C. (2003). The pentathlon: A story
about addition and subtraction. New York:
Wright Group/McGraw-Hill.
A story of animal friends as they race a
pentathlon adding and subtracting along
the way.
CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.A.1
Use addition and subtraction within 20
to solve word problems involving
situations of adding to, taking from,
putting together, taking apart, and
comparing, with unknowns in all
positions, e.g., by using objects,
drawings, and equations with a symbol
for the unknown number to represent the
problem.