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The Massachusetts Children’s Book Award is an annual literary award recognizing one book selected by vote of Massachusetts schoolchildren from a list prepared by committee. The award was established in 1975 and its purpose is to help maintain interest in reading among children in the intermediate grades.
First presented in 1967 and customarily announced in June,the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature.
Author James Patterson's site with great resouces for parents to help kids (especially boys) love reading. Good lists and reviews with age suggestions.
Readers will find tender and joyful celebrations of families and intergenerational friendships, delightfully goofy series installments, deft and poignant coming-of-age narratives, wildly original speculative fiction, and revelatory informational works that shatter false mythologies. This is an outstanding collection of 92 titles spanning picture books, transitional chapter books, middle grade, young adult, nonfiction, and graphic novels.
The Association for Library Service to Children promotes reading and books through recommendations, compilations of lists, and related services.
National Public Radio, a publicly and privately funded non-profit membership media organization, offers links to author interviews and a collection of book reviews organized by topic.
Many of them are also Read Alouds! - check for links with the underlined titles
K-5 Math Teaching Resources read aloud list
Investigations Children’s Literature in Grades 3-5
2nd Grade Literature List University of Chicago
Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews
How Many Snails? by Paul Giganti, Jr.
The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid
The Shape of Things by Dale Ann Dodds
Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno
Anno’s Magic Seeds by Mitsumasa Anno
Counting Crocodiles by Judy Sierra
Feast for Ten by Catherine Falwell
Sea Squares by Joy N. Hulme
Shoes by Elizabeth Winthrop
The Best of Times by Greg Tang
G is for Googol by David M. Schwartz
What’s Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew? by Robert E. Wells
Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? by Robert E. Wells
The History of Counting by Denis Schmandt-Besserat
How Big Are They? from Flying Frog Publishing
Whose Shoes? by Stephen Swinburne
Ten Flashing Fireflies by Philomen Sturges
Peter’s Pockets by Eve Rice (meh)
One Hundred Hungry Ants by Eleanor Pinzes
Twelve Ways to Get to 11 by Eve Merriam
One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab by April Pulley Sayre (k-3)
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban
Round is a Tortilla by Roseanne Greenfield Thong
Round is a Mooncake by Roseanne Theong (song version)
Round is a Mooncake by Roseanne Theong (read aloud)
The Napping House by Audrey and Don Wood
The Ding Dong Clock By Carol Behrman
Ten Apples Up On Top By Dr Seuss
Wacky Wednesday By Dr Seuss
Pigs in the Pantry: Fun with Math and Cooking
The Twelve Circus Rings by Seymour Chwast
Two Ways to Count to Ten by Ruby Dee
Counting on Frank by Rod Clement
The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns
Ton by Taro Mura
The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins
The Big Fish by Aoi Huber-Kono
Math Attack! by Joan Horton
Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar by Masaichiro and Mitsumasa Anno
Eating Fractions by Bruce McMillan
Math Fables by Greg Tang
The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang
How Big Is A Foot? By Rolf Myller