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Counting

There are many counting resources to choose from at our library. The following is a list of some of the best ones to use with kids just learning to count.

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Counting Books

Note: All call numbers are for the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana

CALL #	AUTHOR	TITLE	DATE
J BOARDBK ANIMA	Sheppard, Kate	Animal 1,2,3 After Rabbit drops the birthday card he is delivering, different animals try to get his attention and lead him back to where he dropped the card. On board pages.	2010
J BOARDBK FIVE		5 Busy Ducklings Five busy ducklings are on the go in this first counting book	2010
J BOARDBK HILL	Hill, Eric	Spot's First Numbers : A Touch-and-Feel Book Make learning fun with this first concept book for toddlers. Spot introduces tactile numbers with interesting textures to encourage counting from one balloon to five crayons.	2010
J BOARDBK WELLS	Wells, Rosemary	Counting Peas A big sneeze scatters Max's peas in every direction.	2010
J BURTO	Burton, Katherine	One Gray Mouse "Young children learn colours, numbers and animals through the adventures of one grey mouse.	2006
J398.84	Dunn, Opal	Number Rhymes Numbers are fun, and reciting rhymes is a natural way for children to pick up number words and enjoy using them. This entertaining collection of rhymes teaches ways to count while familiarizing young readers with numbers beyond ten.	2009
J513.211	Hartmann, Wendy	One Sun Rises Bold, bright colors illustrate this simple counting book with African wildlife.	1994
J513.211 CURRY	Curry, Don L.	How Many Birds? Simple text and photographs present a variety of birds for the reader to count and add.	2000
J513.211 ENSLO	Enslow, Brian	Counting Butterflies 1-2-3 Learn about bugs, and counting to ten.	2012
J513.211 SCHAE	Schaefer, Lola	Homes 123 Illustrated descriptions of various types of dwellings and their inhabitants introduce the numbers one through ten.	2003
J513.211 SCHAE	Schaefer, Lola	Musty-Crusty Animals 123 A counting book featuring a variety of crustaceans.	2002
J578.768 MCKIS	McKissack, Fredrick	Counting in the Wetlands Children can count from one to ten as they read about the different animals and features of the wetlands	2009
J591.468 HALFM	Halfmann, Janet	Eggs 1 2 3 Ten spreads with gatefolds and a culminating dramatic fold-out lead young readers from a single penguin egg to an ostrich's clutch of 10 eggs. Song-like, non-rhyming verse gives clues as to who might hatch. The answer to the repeated refrain, "Who will the babies be?", is found beneath a flap. Besides discovering the animal baby or babies, kids will also pick up a lot of nature terminology and interesting facts about animals, their birthing environments, and habitats.	2012
J782.42 RAFFI	Raffi	Five Little Ducks When her five little ducks disappear one by one, Mother Duck sets out to find them. Includes musical notation.	1989
JE ADAMS	Adams, Michelle	Counting Cows The reader is invited to count the increasing number of colorful cows that sing, cheer, and dance the Moo Cow Boogaloo.	2010
JE ANDRE	Andreasen, Dan	The Baker's Dozen The reader is invited to count from one to thirteen as a jolly baker makes delectable treats from one mouth-watering eclair to twelve luscious cupcakes, and serves them to invited guests.	2007
JE BAKER	Baker, Keith	Big Fat Hen Big Fat Hen counts to ten with her friends and all their chicks.	1994
JE BANG	Bang, Molly	Ten, Nine, Eight Numbers from ten to one are part of this lullaby which observes the room of a little girl going to bed.	1991
JE BEELE	Beeler, Selby	How Many Elephants? A lift-the-flap counting book about some tricky elephants	2004
JE BERGE	Berger, Samantha	Apples Reproduces paintings of apples, from one to ten, by various artists including René Magritte, Andy Warhol, Fernando Botero, and Paul Cézanne.	1998
JE BURRI	Burris, Priscilla	Five Green and Speckled Frogs Five frogs eat bugs as they sit on a log, but one by one they jump into the cool pool until all are gone.	2003
JE BUTLE	Butler, John	Bedtime in the Jungle As dusk falls in the jungle, animal babies and their parents prepare for bedtime.	2009
JE CARLE	Carle, Eric	The Very Hungry Caterpillar Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep.	1987
JE COTTE	Cotten, Cynthia	At the Edge of the Woods: A Counting Book A variety of animals, birds, and insects enjoy the flowers and trees of the forest early one morning.	2002
JE CURIO	Rey, H.A.	Curious George Learns to Count from 1 to 100 When Curious George learns to count from 1 to 100, he finds that he can count almost anything, with some strange and unusual results.	2005
JE CURRY	Curry, Don L.	My Counting Book Invites the reader to count a variety of animals engaged in different activities.	2000
JE DENIS	Denise, Anika	Pigs Love Potatoes A counting book in which increasing numbers of pigs arrive and are recruited to help as Mamma cooks potatoes.	2007
JE DOBBI	Dobbins, Jan	Driving My Tractor The reader is invited to count the animal passengers riding in a tractor traveling on a bumpy road.	2009
JE	Ehlert, Lois	Fish Eyes: A book you can count on Counting book written in rhyme from a 'fish eye' point of view	1990
JE ELLIO	Elliott, David	One Little Chicken Watch the little chicken's dance, while counting to ten by chance.	2007
JE FALWE	Falwell, Cathryn	Turtle Splash: Countdown at the Pond As they are startled by the activities of other nearby creatures, the number of turtles on a log in a pond decreases from ten to one.	2001
JE FORME	Formento, Alison	This Tree Counts Before they begin planting new trees, Mr. Tate tells his students to listen closely as the lone tree behind their school counts out ten ways it serves the needs of different animals.	2010
JE FRANC	Franco, Betsy	Zero is the Leaves on the Tree This colorful book looks at "zero, a number that is best defined by what is it not"--inside cover.	2009
JE HILL	Hill, Eric	Spot Can Count Children learn basic counting skills while lifting the flaps with Spot.	1999
JE HOLUB	Holub, Joan	Apple Countdown Rhyming text describes a school field trip to an apple orchard, where the students count down all the things they see, from twenty nametags to one apple pie.	2009
JE KATZ	Katz, Karen	Ten tiny babies Babies from one to ten enjoy a bouncy, noisy, jiggly day until they are finally fast asleep at night.	2008
JE KREBS	Krebs, Laurie	We All Went on Safari Three children learn to count in English and Swahili as they cross the Tanzanian plains.	2003
JE LEUCK	Leuck, Laura	One Witch A witch goes around to her fiendish friends--from two cats to ten werewolves--to gather the ingredients to make gruesome stew for her party.	2003
JE LEWIN	Lewin, Betsy	Cat Count A child adds up the cats owned by ten different people and discovers that it is a lot of cats.	2003
JE LOTTR	Lottridge, Celia Barker	One Watermelon Seed	2008
JE MACDO	MacDonald, Margaret	How Many Donkeys? When Jouha counts the ten donkeys carrying his dates to market, he repeatedly forgets to count the one he is riding on, causing him great consternation. Includes numbers written out in Arabic and in English transliteration, as well as the numerals one through ten, and a note on the origins and other versions of the story.	2009
JE MARTI	Martin, Bill	Ten Little Caterpillars Illustrations and rhyming text follow ten caterpillars as one wriggles up a flower stem, another sails across a garden pool, and one reaches an apple leaf, where something amazing happens.	2011
JE MCGRA	McGrath, Barbara	Teddy Bear Counting Teddy bears introduce numbers from one to twelve, as well as colors and shapes.	2010
JE MILLE	Miller, Virginia	Ten Red Apples Bartholomew and George, two bears, and Little Black Kitten enjoy the apple tree in the garden and count its shiny red apples.	2003
JE MODES	Modesitt, Jeanne	Oh, What a Beautiful Day! Easy-to-read, rhyming text celebrates the wonder of a beautiful day as a girl meets animals swirling, twirling, and loving every minute of it.	2009
JE NORTH	North, Mark	The Day Anthony Counted to Googol Join Anthony and see how he counts to the highest number imaginable.	2009
JE OBORN	Oborne, Martine	One Beautiful Baby Counts all of the characteristics of a beautiful baby from one smile to ten sticky fingers.	2002
JE PAVEY	Pavey, Peter	One Dragon's Dream As a dragon dreams of turkeys, tigers, kangaroos, and seals, the reader can count the items hidden within the dream.	2009
JE PELLE	Pelley, Kathleen T.	Magnus Maximus, a Marvelous Measurer As the town's official measurer, Magnus Maximus is consumed with measuring and counting everything and everyone, missing out on life's simple pleasures, until one day when he breaks his glasses.	2010
JE PETER	Peters, Lisa	Frankie Works the Night Shift In this counting book, Frankie the cat's night prowling causes a ruckus, waking sleeping neighbors who do not share Frankie's love of the "night shift."	2010
JE REASO	Reasoner, Charles	One Blue Fish : A Colorful Counting Book Lift shaped flaps to reveal one blue fish, two white swans, and so forth, introducing readers to counting and colors with pond critters.	2010
JE REISE	Reiser, Lynn	Ten Puppies Puppies from one to ten are counted and sorted according to their different features.	2003
JE SAYER	Sayre, April	One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab A counting book featuring animals with different numbers of feet.	2010
JE SCHUE	Schuette, Sarah	3, 2, 1 Go! Counts backward from ten to one, starting with ten toy school buses and ending with one toy city bus.	2003
JE SCHUM	Schumaker, Ward	In My Garden In this garden the reader learns to count from one watering can to ten snails, from twenty weepy onions to fifty cherry pies and even to 233 peas.	2000
JE SEEGE	Seeger, Laura	One Boy A boy creates ten paintings in this counting book that also explores the relationship of words within words.	2008
JE SHIEL	Shields, Carol Diggory	Wombat Walkabout Rhyming text follows six little wombats on walkabout and a hungry dingo following, envisioning them as his lunch until the wombats turn the tables on him.	2009
JE SIY	Siy, Alexandra	One Tractor While one tractor sits on the grass, out of gas, increasing numbers of other vehicles, from two airplanes to ten bicycles, fill the backyard with adventure.	2008
JE SLAUG	Slaughter, Tom	1 2 3 Bold pictures with simple numerals make for a very teachable counting book.	2003
JE SMITH	Smith, Danna	Two at the Zoo A grandfather and grandchild go to the zoo, where they count animals from one to ten.	2009
JE SMITH	Smith, Maggie	Counting Our Way to Maine On a trip to Maine, the family counts from one baby to twenty fireflies.	1995
JE SPURR	Spurr, Elizabeth	Farm Life Rhymed descriptions of life on a farm introduce basic colors and the numbers one to ten.	2003
JE STICK	Stickland, Paul	Ten Terrible Dinosaurs A group of rollicking dinosaurs counts down from ten to one as it introduces subtraction to the reader.	1997
JE STIEG	Stiegemeyer, Julie	Seven Little Bunnies Seven bunnies find many other things to do when it is time for them to go to bed.	2010
JE THOMP	Thompson, Lauren	How Many Cats? From zero to twenty, a house becomes filled with frolicking cats, who then leave alone or in groups.	2009
JE WABER	Waber, Bernard	Lyle Walks the Dog Count the dogs as Lyle the crocodile's dog walking business grows.	2010
JE WILSO	Wilson, Karma	A Frog in the Bog A frog in the bog grows larger and larger as he eats more and more bugs, until he attracts the attention of an alligator who puts an end to his eating.	2003
JE YOON	Yoon, Salina	One Weighs a Ton Rhymes for the numbers one to ten plus factual information about certain animals.	2009

Music

Note: All call numbers are for the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana

CALL #	ARTIST	TITLE	DATE
CD JZM COLL LLAN P 85		Let’s Learn About Numbers & Counting, Time, ABCs Introduction & instruction (ABC's) -- ABC story --Repeat ABC story -- The ABC song -- Repeat the ABC song -- Introduction & instruction (Numbers and counting) -- Numbers and counting story -- Repeat numbers and counting story -- The Numbers and counting song -- Repeat the Numbers and counting song --Introduction & instruction (Time) -- Time story --Repeat Time story -- The Time song -- Repeat the Time song.	1987
CD JZM COLL LLAN P 85		Let's Learn About - Numbers and Counting, Time, ABC's	1987
CD JZM COLL LN P22		Letters and Numbers: 16 Timeless Classics Learning about letters and numbers has never been more fun with Junior Jukebox leading the way. From the "Alphabet" song to "This old man" you and your child will love singing these timeless classics."	2004
CD JZM GILL IA J 00	Gill, Jim	Irrational Anthem "Jumping and Counting" The irrational anthem -- Can't wait to celebrate -- I'll spell it out for you -- Saxophones -- Shakin' everywhere -- The gong song -- Jumping and counting -- Toy boat -- Follow the band -- (Jim Gill is) going nowhere -- Laughing in rhythm -- Buffet ballet -- Bix Beiderbecke -- The dance along gong song -- Yodeling -- May there always be sunshine.	2001
CD JZM PALM SB H 07	Palmer, Hap	So Big “Ten Wiggle Worms” So happy you're here -- Five little monkeys -- I'm a pretzel -- So big -- Rock and roll freeze dance -- Baby chickie -- When I'm down I get up and dance -- Ten wiggle worms (pt. 1 ; pt. 2) -- Jack-in-the-box -- Growing -- Bluegrass jamboree -- Teddy bear playtime -- Put your hands in the air -- Big things come from little things you do.	1994
CD JZM THEY HCO D00	They Might Be Giants	Here Come the 123's	2007

DVDs

Note: All call numbers are for the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana

ARTIST	TITLE	DATE	CALL #
DVD J418.3 FUN	Cruz, Ynes	Fun With Numbers	2004
DVD J419 SIGNI	Coleman, Rachel	Practice Time 123's level 1 123s will help children learn their numbers from 1 to 20; signing numbers with ease; recognizing numbers as they are signed to you.	2006
DVD J513.211 HELLO		Hello Numbers: Learn to Count With interactive games, songs and count-alongs, Agent Hello teaches his Video Pals to count from 1 to 10, and by 10's to 100.	2008
DVD J782.4 BABY	Palmer, Hap	ABC, 123, colors & shapes Ten fun, live-action, finger snapping songs will entertain children for hours and introduce basic skills such as recognition of letters, colors, shapes and number concepts.	2003
DVD J782.4 BARNE	West, Bob	Barney: It's Time for Counting Stella the Storyteller loses her numbers from the magic clock, Barney and friends have to come to the rescue. Includes many songs and the stories: The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs, Belling the Cat, and The Turnip.	2006
DVD JE COLOR	Caudle, Brad	Colors Shapes and Counting Learn to count objects by color, shape, or a combination of both. Includes advanced colors and shapes.	1997
DVD JE SESAME	Sesame Workshop	Learning about Numbers The Count shows children how to count.	2004

If you need help finding these or other Library materials, please check with anyone in Children's Services. We look forward to seeing you at the Library!

This list was created by and is maintained by Children's Services Librarians.
Comments and suggestions can be sent to Becky White at bwhite@acpl.info, or to Mary R. Voors, Manager, Children's Services at mvoors@acpl.info.