Books To Help Your Child Develop Literacy and Numeracy Skills
Five Resources To Build A Positive Maths Mindset In Kindergarten
Beautiful Oops! - Written and illustrated by Barney Saltzberg
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape It - Written by JoAnn Deak PhD and illustrated by Sarah Ackerley
The Most Magnificent Thing - Written and illustrated by Ashley Spires
Rosie Revere, Engineer - Written by Andrea Beaty and illustrated by David Roberts
How To Catch A Star - Written and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
Books To Build Mathematical Understanding In Years 1 and 2
How Big Is A Million? - Written by Anna Milbourne and illustrated by Serena Riglietti.
12 Ways To Get To 11 - Written by Eve Mirriam.
Great Estimations- Written and illustrated by Bruce Goldstone.
Sheep Won’t Sleep: Counting By 2s, 5s And 10s - Written by Judy Cox and illustrated by Nina Cuneo.
How Tall, How Short, How Far Away? - Written by David A. Adler and illustrated by Nancy Tobin.
Five People Who Used Maths To Change The World For Years 3 and 4
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life Of Paul Erdos - Deborah Heiligman and illustrated by LeUyen Pham.
Grace Hopper: Queen Of Computer Code - Laurie Wallmark and illustrated by Katy Wu.
On A Beam Of Light: A Story Of Albert Einstein -Jennifer Berne and illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky.
Counting On Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 - Dow Phumiruk.
The World Is Not A Rectangle: A Portrait Of Architect Zaha Hadid - Jeanette Winter.
Five Resources To Build A Positive Maths Mindset In Years 5 and 6
What Do You Do With A Problem? - Kobi Yamada.
Salt In His Shoes: Michael Jordan In Pursuit Of A Dream - Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan and illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
Mistakes That Worked: The World’s Familiar Inventions And How They Came To Be - Charlotte Jones and illustated by John O'Brien.
The Boy Who Dreamed Of Infinity: A Tale Of The Genius Ramanujan - Amy Alznauer and illustrated by Daniel Miyares.
Books For Conversation and Word-Building
Dunbi the Owl – Daisy Utemorrah, editor Pamela Lofts. Scholastic Australia
Possum Magic – Mem Fox, illustrator Julie Vivas. Omnibus Books
Splosh for the Billabong – Ros Moriarty, illustrator Balarinji. Allen and Unwin
The Day the Crayons Quit – Drew Daywalt, illustrator Oliver Jeffers. Harper Collins Children’s Books
The Echidna and the Shade Tree – Mona Green, editor Pamela Lofts. Scholastic Australia
The Little Refugee – Anh and Suzanne Do, illustrator Bruce Whatley. Allen & Unwin Children
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs – Jon Scieszka, illustrator Lane Smith. Penguin
The Very Cranky Bear – Nick Bland. Scholastic Australia Books that have rhyme
Miss Spider’s Tea Party – David Kirk. Scholastic Inc No Way Yirrikipayi! – Alison Lester. Pan Macmillan Australia
Pig the Pug – Aaron Blabey. Scholastic Australia
Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas – Aaron Blabey. Scholastic Australia Oi Cat! – Kes Gray, Jim Field. Hachette Australia
Sebastian Lives in a Hat – Thelma Catterwell, illustrator Kerry Argent. Omnibus Books
Walking Through the Jungle – Stella Blackstone. Barefoot Books
The Cat in the Hat – Dr Seuss. Random House Books about letters
ABC Dreaming – Warren Brim. Magabala Books Animalia – Graeme Base. Picture Puffins
Dr Seuss’s ABC – Dr Seuss. Random House I Spy, An Alphabet in Art – Lucy Micklethwait. Greenwillow Book
Books To Help Your Child Develop Numeracy Skills
Books about numbers and counting Counting on Community – Innosanto Nagara. Seven Stories Press, Penguin.
Counting with Tiny Cat – Viviane Schwarz. Walker Books Five Little Ducks – Penny Ives. Child’s Play International Ltd
One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab – April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre, illustrator Randy Cecil. Scholastic Australia
One Woolly Wombat – Kerry Argent. Scholastic Australia Ten Black Dots – Donald Crews. Scholastic Australia
Ten Little Dinosaurs – Mike Brownlow, illustrator Simon Rickerty. Orchard Books
Ten Little Jarjum – Tabulam Aboriginal Community members, editors Suzi Williams and Kate Merrifield. NSW Board of Studies
Ten Scared Fish – Ros Moriarty, illustrator Balarinji. Allen and Unwin
Books About Adding and Subtracting
Five Little Monkeys Play Hide-and-seek – Eileen Christelow. Houghton Mifflin
Ten Little Beasties – Rebecca and Ed Emberley. Macmillan
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes – Mem Fox, illustrator Helen Oxenbury. Puffin Books
Ten Little Ladybugs – Melanie Gerth, illustrator Laura Huliska-Beith. Intervisual Books Inc
There Were 10 in the Bed – illustrator Wendy Straw. Sweet Cherry Publishing The Shopping Basket – John Burningham. Random House
Uno’s Garden – Graeme Base. Penguin Books, Puffin
Books About Patterning
Anno’s Counting Book – Mitsumasa Anno. Harper Collins Caterpillar and Butterfly – Ambelin Kwaymullina. Fremantle Press
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish – Dr Seuss. Random House
The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle. Hamish Hamilton Press