Physics booklist

Here is a list of books and movies I have put together for our study of physics. We'll hit it later this year. I have not read each book, but have read the reviews on Amazon and Goodreads to get a feel for whether they are appropriate or not. We rent most of our videos from A Plus Video Rentals because our library has nothing.

I'll be using this with 2 fifth graders and a first grader. We'll do the experiments listed in Real Science for Kids and add any others from the experiment books that the boys really want to do.

Physics Course Ideas
(to be used for 1st through 6th grade)

Real Science 4 Kids Pre-level 1 and Level 1

Additional resources (mostly to be looked through for fun):
Exploring the World of Physics – John Tiner
Picture History of Great Inventors – Gillian Clements
Usborne Internet-Linked Science Encyclopedia
Usborne Internet-Linked Mysteries and Marvels of Nature

Videos listed below from A Plus Video Rentals http://www.aplusvideorentals.com/ or from
BrainPop and BrainPopJr – www.brainpop.com or www.brainpopjr.com

Chapter 1 What is physics?
Foolish Physics (Weird History of Science) – John Townsend
Gravity is a Mystery – Franklyn Branley
Weight and Weightlessness - Franklyn Mansfield Branley

BrainPopJr – Sink or float
BrainPop – Gravity
Galileo
Newton

Movies:
All About Forces & Gravity (Physical Science for Children)
Gravity – Bill Nye
Gravity (Physical Science in Action)
Gravity (Science Court Series)

Chapter 2 Force, energy and work
Forces and Movement (Straightforward Science) – Peter Riley
Forces Make Things Move - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Hands on Science – Forces and Motion – Sarah Angliss
Horrible Science: Fatal Forces – Nick Arnold

BrainPopJr – Pushes and pulls
BrainPop – Force
Work

Movies:
Forces (Physical Science in Action)
Forces (Discovery School series)
Energy – Bill Nye
What is Energy?

Chapter 3 Potential and kinetic energy
How Do You Lift a Lion? – Robert Wells
Streamlined – John Kaufmann

BrainPop – Kinetic energy

Movies:
All About Transfer of Energy
Energy: Potential and Kinetic

Chapter 4 Motion
BrainPop – Acceleration
Newton’s Law of Motion

Movies:
All About Motion & Balance

Chapter 5 Energy of atoms and molecules
BrainPop – Nuclear energy
Fuel cells
Batteries

Movies:
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Energy – Bill Nye

Chapter 6 Electrical energy and charge
All About Electricity - Melvin Berger
Charged Up – The Story of Electricity – Jacqui Bailey
Electricity (Straightforward Science) – Peter Riley
Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip – Joanna Cole
Shocking Story of Electricity – Anna Claybourne
Switch On, Switch Off - Melvin Berger

BrainPop – Electricity
Electric circuits

Movies:
All About the Uses of Energy

Chapter 7 Moving electric charges and heat
BrainPopJr - Heat
BrainPop – Static electricity
Current electricity
Heat

Movies:
All About Heat
Heat and Chemical Energy
Transfer of Energy

Chapter 8 Magnets and electromagnets
Hands On Science: Electricity and Magnetism – Sarah Angliss
Magnetism (Straightforward Science) – Peter Riley
What Makes a Magnet? - Franklyn M. Branley

BrainPopJr - Magnets
BrainPop – Magnetism
Electromagnets
Electromagnetic induction

Movies:
All About Magnets (Physical Science for Children)
Electromagnetic Energy
Magnetism – Bill Nye

Chapter 9 Light and Sound
All About Light - Melvin Berger
All About Sound - Melvin Berger
Color - Ruth Heller
Hands On Science: Sound and Light – Sarah Angliss (maybe use as a spine)
High Sounds, Low Sounds - Franklyn Mansfield Branley
Light and Color (Straighforward Science) – Peter Riley
Magic School Bus Gets a Bright Idea – Nancy White
Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow – Joanna Cole
Rubber Band Banjos – Alex Sabbeth
Sounds All Around - Wendy Pfeffer

BrainPopJr – Light
Sound
BrainPop –Light
Sun
Refraction and diffraction
Rainbows
Color
Electromagnetic spectrum
Eyes
Sound
Waves
Hearing
Albert Einstein
Relativity

Chapter 10 Conservation of energy
BrainPopJr – Natural resources
BrainPop – Natural resources
Wind energy
Solar energy

Experiment books to use throughout study:
Ben Franklin Book of Easy and Incredible Experiments - Lisa Jo Rudy
Gizmo’s and Gadgets – Jill Frankel Hauser
Rubber Band Banjos – Alex Sabbeth
Isaac Newton and Physics for Kids – Kerrie Logan Hollihan

Biographies to read throughout study:
Did it Take Creativity to Find Relativity, Albert Einstein? – Melvin Berger
Albert Einstein – Mike Venezia
Albert Einstein – Early Biographies – Dana Meachen Rau
What Makes Light Bright, Thomas Edison? – Gilda and Melvin Berger
Einstein: Visionary Scientist - John Severance
Story of Thomas Alva Edison - Margaret Cousins
Thomas Alva Edison: Inventing the Electric Age – Gene Adair
Who Was Albert Einstein? - Jess Brallier

How Benjamin Franklin Stole the Lightning – Rosalyn Schanzer
(We have studied Franklin already so are only hitting him lightly here. If you haven't already studied him, you might want to read a bit more.)

Isaac Newton and His Apple – Kjartan Poskitt
Isaac Newton and Physics for Kids – Kerrie Logan Hollihan
Isaac Newton and the Laws of Motion – Andrea Gianopoulos
Isaac Newton: Giants of Science – Kathleen Krull

Michael Faraday (Trailblazers) – Derick Bingham
Faraday: Pioneer of Electricity – Brian Williams

Archimedes and the Door of Science – Jeanne Bendick

Simple Machines:
Simple Machines (Starting With Science) – Deborah Hodge
Simply Science: Simple Machines – Discover Science Through Facts and Fun – Steve Way

Manipulatives to use:
Ein-O’s Discovery Tank – Mechanical Science
K’Nex building set

BrainPopJr – Simple machines
BrainPop: Inclined planes
Levers
Wheel and Axle
Pulleys
Gears

Movies:
Mechanical Energy
All About Simple Machines
Simple Machines – Bill Nye
Simple Machines (Physical Science in Action)
Work and Simple Machines

Human Body study

We have already done a unit on the human body. You can see what we did and which books we used here.

This is the original list of books I wanted to use, but since my library didn't have most of them, I used what I could, bought a few and left the rest for later.

Human Body
Main Book - Eyewitness Explorers - Human Body
Blood and Guts - Linda Allison

Skin
Your Skin and Mine - Paul Showers

Muscles
On the Move – Deborah Heiligman
Magic School Bus Flexes Its Muscles (video)
You Can't Make a Move Without Your Muscles - Paul Showers

Bones
The Skeleton Inside You – Philip Balestrino

Cells
I Know How My Cells Make Me Grow – Kate Rowan

Teeth
How Many Teeth - Paul Showers
I Know Why I Brush My Teeth - Kate Rowan

Circulatory system
Drop of Blood -Paul Showers
Hear Your Heart - Paul Showers

Respiratory system
Oxygen Keeps You Alive - Franklyn Mansfield Branley

Brain
Use Your Brain - Paul Showers

Staying healthy/Germs
Germs make me sick - Melvin Berger
H is for Hygiene - Keith Turner
I Know How We Fight Germs - Kate Rowan
The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie: A Book About Germs - Joanna Cole
No Measles, No Mumps for Me - Paul Showers
Sleep Is For Everyone - Paul Showers
Wash Your Hands! (germs) – Tony Ross
What Makes You Ill? – Usborne
Why I Cough, Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup, & Yawn - Melvin Berger

The five senses
Find Out by Touching - Paul Showers
Follow your nose - Paul Showers
I Can Tell by Touching – Carolyn Otto
The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses – Joanna Cole
Me and My Senses – Joan Sweeney
My Five Senses - Aliki
My Hands - Aliki
You Can't Smell a Flower with Your Ear! All About Your Five Senses - Joanna Cole

Food/nutrition
Fat and skinny - Philip Balestrino
Health Hygiene and Nutrition - Deirdre Englehart

Ears/Eyes
Ears Are for Hearing - Paul Showers
Look at Your Eyes - Paul Showers

Digestive System
I Know Where My Food Goes (digestion) - Kate Rowan
What Happens to a Hamburger? - Paul Showers
Why Do People Eat? - Usborne

General/Others
All Kinds of Feet - Ron Goor
The Body Book - Donald Silver
Everybody Has a Body: Science from Head to Toe – Robert Rockwell, et al
From Head to Toe: The Amazing Human Body and How It Works – Barbara Seuling
How Our Bodies Work - Joe Kaufman
How We Grow - Joe Kaufman
How We Learn -Joe Kaufman
How You Talk - Paul Showers
The Human Body: A First Discovery Book – Claude Delafosse
I'm Growing! - Aliki
The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body - Joanna Cole
Me and My Amazing Body – Joan Sweeney
Me and My Family Tree - Paul Showers
My Feet, Aliki
My First Body Book – Christopher Rice
Straight Hair, Curly Hair - Augusta R Goldin
Usborne What’s Inside You
Why Don't Haircuts Hurt: Questions and Answers About Your Body - Melvin Berger
Your Insides - Joanna Cole

Babies
Babies (Jump Into Science) - Deborah Heiligman
Baby Starts to Grow - Paul Showers
Before You Were a Baby - Paul Showers
How You Were Born -Joanna Cole
How Was I Born - Lennart Nilsson
How We are Born - Joe Kaufman

MIDDLE SCHOOL (in addition to using some of the above)
Bones: Our Skeletal System – Simon Seymour
The Brain: Our Nervous System - Simon Seymour
Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross – Augusta Stevenson
Clara Barton: Soldier of Mercy – Mary Catherine Rose
Cuts, Breaks, Bruises, and Burns: How Your Body Heals – Joanna Cole
Elizabeth Blackwell: Girl Doctor – Joanne Landers Henry
Eyes and Ears - Simon Seymour
Eyewitness Visual Dictionary of the Human Body – Deni Brown
The Heart: Our Circulatory System - Simon Seymour
The Human Body – Sally Morgan
Human Body, (Usborne Internet-Linked) – Kirsteen Rogers
Muscles: Our Muscular System - Simon Seymour

Basher books

We currently have in our home two books by Simon Basher, Astronomy and the Periodic Table. I have two more at my mom's house waiting for me to make the long, long drive. And I will.

My boys are LOVING the Basher books. My little 6-year-old follows me around the house, begging me to read the book on the Periodic Table. Yes, he wants to read about elements. My husband is amazed at how much the kid asks for the book. My reluctant reader is trying very, very hard to read the books by himself.

The information is solid, but presented in a humorous and thus memorable manner. The illustrations are fantastic. Yes, you need real photographs of some of these things, but golly, have we learned a lot.

As mentioned above, I don't have all the books so I can't guarantee they are all great. But I can say that so far I'm extremely pleased with the series and will gladly buy the rest. Very, very highly recommended.

Woods

I have lists and lists of books we want to study for science, divided more or less by habitat/biome. We have not read through them all, but I wanted to start posting them so others can use them and so that I don't ever lose them if my computer crashes! Of course any suggestions of books or movies or topics are always appreciated. I'll update these as we do them.

Woods

Main book: One Small Square - Woods by Don Silver

Topics to cover:
Leaf structure
Trees
Seed dispersal
Fungi/Decomposers
Producers
Consumers
Surviving the winter
Pollinators
Food chains/webs
Seasons
Camouflage
Woodland Insects
Metamorphosis
Migration/hibernation

Books to use:
All About Owls - Jim Arnosky
All About Deer - Jim Arnosky
Chipmunks on the Doorstep --Edwin Tunis
Grizzly Bears - Gail Gibbons
Prickly Porcupines - Shannon Zemlicka
Rabbits, Rabbits & More Rabbits! - Gail Gibbons
What is a Bear? - Bobbie Kalman
Who Grows Up in the Forest? - Theresa Longenecker
Wolves - Gail Gibbons
Redwoods Are the Tallest Trees in the World - David A. Adler
Why Do Leaves Change Color? - Betsy Maestro

Bald Eagle – Gordon Morrison
Bird Talk - Roma Gans
Birds Are Flying - John Kaufmann
Birds at night - Roma Gans
Birds Eat and Eat and Eat - Roma Gans
Birds That Don't Fly - Bobbie Kalman
Home At Last: A Song of Migration – April Pulley Sayre
How Birds Fly - Bobbie Kalman
How Do Birds Find Their Way - Roma Gans
Nest Full of Eggs – Priscilla Belz Jenkins
Soaring With the Wind: The Bald Eagle - Gail Gibbons
Owls - Gail Gibbons
Strange Birds - Bobbie Kalman
When Birds Change Their Feathers – Roma Gans

Among the Forest People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
Among the Night People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
Animals in Winter – Henrietta Bancroft and Richard Van Gelder
Big Tracks; Little Tracks – Millicent Selsam
Crinkleroot's Guide to Animal Tracking - Jim Arnosky
Forest Explorer: A Life-Sized Field Guide - Nic Bishop
How to Be a Nature Detective: Following Animal Tracks - Millicent Ellis Selsam
I See Animals Hiding - Jim Arnosky
What Do Animals Do in Winter?: How Animals Survive the Cold - Melvin Berger
Where Are the Night Animals? – Mary Ann Fraser

Rocks and Minerals

I have lists and lists of books we want to study for science, divided more or less by habitat/biome. We have not read through them all, but I wanted to start posting them so others can use them and so that I don't ever lose them if my computer crashes! Of course any suggestions of books or movies or topics are always appreciated. I'll update these as we do them.

Rocks & Minerals

Main book: Eyewitness Explorers: Rocks and Minerals

Topics to cover:
The three types of rocks and how they form
Erosion
How weathering occurs
Minerals
Mohs' mineral hardness scale
The structure of the Earth
Volcanoes, lava, and magma
How mountains form

Books to use:
Cracking Up: Story of Erosion – Jacqui Bailey
Dirt (Jump Into Science) - Steve Tomecek
DK Eye Wonder - Rocks and Minerals
Geology Rocks – Cindy Blobaum
How Mountains Are Made - Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World - Faith McNulty
If You Find a Rock - Peggy Christian
Let's Go Rock Collecting - Roma Gans
Magic School Bus Inside the Earth - Cole
Millions and Millions of Crystals - Roma Gans
Planet Earth/Inside Out - Gail Gibbons
Rock Collecting - Roma Gans
Rock Factory: Story of the Rock Cycle – Jacqui Bailey
Rocks: Hard, Soft, Smooth and Rough - Natalie Rosinsky
Rocks & Minerals: A Gem of a Read – Simon Basher
Rocks in His Head--Carol Otis Hurst
Volcanoes - Franklyn M. Branley
Why Do Volanoes Blow Their Tops? - Melvin Berger

Sonoran Desert

I have lists and lists of books we want to study for science, divided more or less by habitat/biome. We have not read through them all, but I wanted to start posting them so others can use them and so that I don't ever lose them if my computer crashes! Of course any suggestions of books or movies or topics are always appreciated. I'll update these as we do them.

Sonoran Desert

Main book: One Small Square: Cactus Desert by Don Silver

Topics to cover:
How native animals and plants survive daily life
Interrelationships between animals and plants
The complex food web
The changes associated with rain
Adaptations of plants and animals
The characteristics, similarities, and differences in various deserts

Books to use:
All About Lizards - Jim Arnosky
All About Rattlesnakes - Jim Arnosky
Cactus Cafe: The Story of the Sonoran Desert - Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Cactus Hotel - Brenda Z. Guiberson
Desert Giant - Barbara Bash
The Desert is Theirs - Bryd Baylor
How Do Animals Adapt? - Bobbie Kalman
Lizards - Nic Bishop
Watching Desert Wildlife - Jim Arnosky
Way Out in the Desert - T.J. Marsh
Welcome to the Sea of Sand - Jane Yolen

Ponds

I have lists and lists of books we want to study for science, divided more or less by habitat/biome. We have not read through them all, but I wanted to start posting them so others can use them and so that I don't ever lose them if my computer crashes! Of course any suggestions of books or movies or topics are always appreciated. I'll update these as we do them.

Ponds

Main book: One Small Square: Pond by Don Silver

Topics to cover:
Metamorphosis
Pollination
Pond insects
Fish
Reptiles
Amphibians
Mammals
Birds
Surface tension
Food chains
Plants
Algae
Microscopic life
Bottom dwellers
Ponds at night
Surviving the seasons

Books to use:
Among the Pond People - Clara Dillingham Pierson

What Is An Amphibian? - Bobbie Kalman
What Is a Reptile? – Bobbie Kalman

Beaver at Long Pond - William George
Pond – Gordon Morrison
Pond Watching With Ann Morgan - Michael Ross

Ducks - Gail Gibbons
Ducks Don't Get Wet – Augusta Goldin

All About Frogs - Jim Arnosky
Fantastic Frogs – Fay Robinson
Frogs - Gail Gibbons
Frogs - Nic Bishop
From Tadpole to Frog - Wendy Pfeffer or Shannon Zemlicka
How Do Frogs Swallow With Their Eyes? - Melvin Berger
Spring Peepers - Graham Booth
What I like about toads - Judy Hawes
Why Frogs are Wet - Judy Hawes

All About Turtles - Jim Arnosky
Box Turtle at Long Pond - William George
Look Out for Turtles! - Melvin Berger
Turtle Talk: A Beginner's Book of Logo - Seymour Simon

Ride the Wind: Airborne Journeys of Animals and Plants – Simon Seymour
Water Plants - Laurence P. Pringle

Snakes Are Hunters – Patricia Lauber
A Water Snake's Year - Doris Gove

African Savanna

I have lists and lists of books we want to study for science, divided more or less by habitat/biome. We have not read through them all, but I wanted to start posting them so others can use them and so that I don't ever lose them if my computer crashes! Of course any suggestions of books or movies or topics are always appreciated. I'll update these as we do them.

African Savanna

Main book: One Small Square: African Savanna by Don Silver

Topics to cover:
Tree dwellers
Termites
Grass dwellers
Camouflage
Plants
Grazers
Predators
Scavengers
Food chain
Night on the savanna
Rainy season
Migration

Books to use:
Camels: Ships of the Desert - John Frederick Waters
Elephant Families - Arthur Dorros
Explore Africa - Bobbie Kalman
Giraffes at Home - Robert M. Quackenbush
How Animal Babies Stay Safe – Mary Ann Fraser.
Life Cycle of a Lion - Bobbie Kalman
Magic School Bus Gets Eaten: A Book About Food Cycles – Patricia Relf
Savanna Habitat - Bobbie Kalman
What Color Is Camouflage? – Carolyn Otto
What is a Primate? - Bobbie Kalman
Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs – Patricia Lauber
Who Grows Up in the Desert? - Theresa Longenecker

Words are CATegorical by Brian P. Cleary

We have found a great series of books for learning the parts of speech. My kids are loving them because the illustrations are hilarious and the rhyming text is silly. Each book focuses on a particular part of speech. It gives the definition and then starts giving examples of it. The text is black, but the particular type of word they are focusing on is in color, thus helping the child figure out which word is an adjective or a verb or whatever.

The last two pages of each book has a large picture and asks the child to find their own example of what they just learned about. Even my 3-yr-old has been able to find examples! One of my 9-yr-olds has some language processing issues and these books have really helped solidify the concepts in his mind. He has easily, and with confidence, found examples in each book.

When asked which book they want to start the school day with, they have been choosing one of Cleary's books. That says something! I also find them looking through and/or reading the books to themselves throughout the day.

Thus far we have read Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective?, A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What is a Noun?, To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What is a Verb?, and Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb? We can't wait to go to the library Monday to get a few more.

My kids are also learning a fair amount of vocabulary as we read these. "Mom, what's a fink? What's a mink? What does puce mean?" Yeah for extra learning!  We typically do Mad Libs a few times a week to help put our "parts of speech skills" to good use.

I'm slowly trying to collect the series (he also has some math books I'm trying to get my hands on). If Mr. Cleary would like to donate the whole set to my family, he'd be my new BFF (and really, who doesn't want to be my BFF).   Mr. Cleary??????

Homeschool Blog Hop

A lovely lady who's blog I follow is having a Blog Hop - a way to find other blogs with great ideas.  I'm excited to get new ideas and encouragement!

Living Math - Math Read-alouds

Here is a list of books I've gathered to be used as math read-alouds.  Most of them would qualify as "living math".  I've organized them (roughly) in the order a child would learn the concepts.  I have NOT read them all so don't get mad if the book stinks!  

ELEMENTARY

Counting

1 is One - Tasha Tudor

26 Letters and 99 Cents - Tana Hoban

100 Days of Cool - Stuart Murphy (#s 1-100)

A Number of Dragons - Loreen Leedy

A Shaker's Dozen - Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen

Animal Babies: A Counting Book - Daniel Moreton

Animal Numbers - Bert Kitchen (Counting & number recog to 100)

April Rabbits - David Cleveland

Bat Jamboree - Kathi Applet

Chicken Little Count to Ten - Margaret Friskey

Emperor and the New Kite - Jane Yolen

Every Buddy Counts - Stuart Murphy

Fish Eyes - Lois Ehlert

Five Chinese Brothers - Clair Huchet Bishop

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed - Eileen Christelow

Frogs Jump - Alan Brooks

Henry the Fourth - Stuart Murphy (ordinal numbers)

How Many Can you See? - Hannah Reidy

How Many Feet in the Bed? - Diane Johnston Ham

How Many Hippos?: A Mix-And-Match Counting Book - Muff Singer

How Many Snails?  A Counting Book - Paul Giganti, Jr.

Jack the Builder - Stuart Murphy (adding on)

Leaping Lizards - Stuart Murphy (counting by 5s and 10s)

Little Quack - Lauren Thompson

Mouse by Mouse: A Counting Adventure - Julia Noonan

Mouse Trail - Mary Octavia Davis

Number Ideas Through Pictures - Mannis Charosh

Number One, Number Fun - Kay Chorao

Numbers (The) - Monique Felix

One...Two... Three... Sassafrass - Stuart Murphy

One Green Mosquito Tree - Jernigan Gisela

One Hungry Monster - Susan Heyboer O'Keefe

One Lonely Seahorse - Joost Elffers

Pigs From 1 to 10 - Arthur Geisert

Right Number of Elephants- Jeff Sheppard

Roman Numerals - David A. Adler

Seven Blind Mice - Ed Young

Seven Diving Ducks - Margaret Friskey

Seven Silly Eaters - Mary Ann Hoberman

Sheep Asleep - Gloria Rothstein

Six Dinner Sid - Inga Moore

Splash - Ann Jonas

Ten Sly Piranhas - William Wise

When Sheep Cannot Sleep - Satoshi Kitamura

Who Invited You? - Candace Fleming

Shapes (there are so many shape books that I've only included a few I'd never heard of - the rest you can easily find on a library shelf)

Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes - Stuart Murphy

Circus Shapes - Stuart Murphy (recognizing shapes)

Picture Pie - Ed Emberley

Picture Pie 2 - Ed Emberley

Windows, Rings and Grapes – A Look at Different Shapes – Brian Cleary

Sorting/Patterning

3 Little Firefighters - Stuart Murphy (sorting)

A Pair of Socks - Stuart Murphy (matching sets)

A-b-a-b-a – A Book of Pattern Play – Brian Cleary

Beep, Beep...Vroom, Vroom - Stuart Murphy (patterns, sorting)

Changes, Changes - Pat Hutchins (visual and auditory patterns)

More or Less a Mess - Sheila Keenan (sorting, categorizing)

Only One - Marc Harshman (sets)

Patterns in Peru - Cindy Neuschwander

Rabbits Pajama Party - Stuart Murphy (sequencing)

Seaweed Soup - Stuart Murphy (matching sets)

Days/Weeks

Clever Cat - Peter Collington

Cookie's Week - Cindy Ward

Day by Day a Week Goes Round - Carol Diggory Shields

Dinosaur Days - Linda Manning

First Things First - Charlotte Voak

Happy Birthday, Word Bird - Jane Belk Moncure

Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Coat - Catherine Ann Cullen

Oliver's Vegetables - Vivian French

On Friday Something Funny Happened - John Prater

One Lighthouse, One Moon - Anita Lobel

Three Two One Day - Debbie Discoll (maybe Driscoll)

Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle

What a Wonderful Day to be a Cow - Carolyn Lesser

Calendar

Jessie Bear, What Will You Wear? - Nancy White Carlstrom

My Grandmother's Clock - Geraldine McCaughrean (clocks and calendars)

Pepper's Journal - Stuart Murphy (calendar)

Months

A Busy Year - Leo Lionni

A Red Wagon Year - Kathi Appelt

A Year of Beasts - Ashley Wolff

A Year for Kiko - Ferida Wolff

All Year Long - Nancy Tafuri

Calendarbears:  A Book of Months - Kathleen Hague

Caps, Hats, Socks and Mittens - Louise W. Borden

Chicken Soup with Rice - Maurice Sendak

How Do You Say it Today, Jesse Bear? - Nancy White Carlstrom

Jump for Joy: A Book of Months - Megan Halsey

Month By Month A Year Goes Round - Carol Diggory Shields

What Will the Weather Be Like Today? - Paul Rogers

When the Box is Full - Patricia Lillie

Year at Maple Hill Farm - Alice Provensen

Addition/Subtraction

12 Ways to Get to 11 - Eve Merriam

A High-Fiving Gift for Mom - Judy Bradbury (includes $ and skip counting)

Action of Subtraction – Brian Cleary

Animals On Board - Stuart Murphy

Each Orange Has 8 Slices - Paul Giganti

Double Bubble Trouble - Judy Bradbury (counting by 2s)

Double the Ducks - Stuart Murphy (doubling numbers)

Elevator Magic - Stuart Murphy (subtraction)

Family Minus - Fernando Krahn

Five Silly Fishermen - Roberta Edwards

Grapes of Math - Greg Tang (moving into multiplication)

Great Take-Away - Louise Mathews

Jack the Builder - Stuart Murphy (adding on)

Leaping Lizards - Stuart Murphy (counting by 5s and 10s)

Mall Mania - Stuart Murphy (addition strategies)

Math-Terpieces - Greg Tang

Math Fables - Greg Tang

Math for All Season - Greg Tang

Mission Addition - Loreen Leedy

Mission of Addition – Brian Cleary

Monster Musical Chairs - Stuart Murphy (subtracting by 1)

Mouse Count - Ellen Stoll Walsh

Mystery of the Farmer's Three Fives - Margaret Friskey

Next Stop Grand Central - Maira Kalman

Numberline Lane series - Fiona Reynolds

One Carton of OOPS - Judy Bradbury

One More Bunny - Rick Walton

Panda Math - Ann Whitehead Nagda (subtraction)

Ready, Set, Hop - Stuart Murphy

Safari Park - Stuart Murphy

Sea Sums - Joy Hulme

Shark Swimathon - Stuart Murphy (subtract 2 digit numbers)

Spunky Monkeys on Parade - Stuart Murphy (counting by 2s, 3s, 4s)

Stay in Line - Teddy Slater

Tally O'Malley - Stuart Murphy

This is the House That Jack Built - Liz Underhill

Operations

Animals on Board - Stuart Murphy

Chugga Chugga Choo Choo - Kevin Lewis

More, Fewer. Less - Tana Hoban (operations)

Splash! - Ann Jonas

Tens, Hundreds, Place Value

100 Days of Cool - Stuart Murphy

12 Ways to Get to 11 - Eve Merriam

512 Ant on Sullivan Street - Carol Losi (doubling)

98, 99, 100.  Ready or Not, Here I Come - Teddy Slater (skip counting of various numbers)

Base Five (Young Math) - David Adler

Binary Numbers - Clyde Watson

Counting Systems - Marnie Luce

Earth Day - Hooray! - Stuart Murphy

Fair Bear Share - Stuart Murphy (regrouping)

How Did Numbers Begin? - Mindel Sitomer (history of numbers)

King's Chessboard - David Birch

Millions of Cats - Wanda Gag

Monster Math Picnic - Grace Maccarone

Mouse Count - Ellen Stoll Walsh

One Hundred Hungry Ants - Elinor Pinczes

One Hundred is a Family - Pat Munoz Ryan

Roman Numerals I to MM - Athur Geisart

Senefer: A Young Genius in Old Egypt - Beatrice Lumpkin (addition, multiplication, number bases)

Tea for Ten - Lena Anderson

Ten Friends - Bruce Goldstone

Ten Monkey Jamboree - Dianne Ochiltree

Two Hundred Rabbits - Lonzo Anderson

Odd/Even

Even Steven and Odd Todd - Kathryn Cristaldi

Missing Mittens - Stuart Murphy (odd and even)

My Even Day – Doris Fisher

Number Ideas Through Pictures - Mannis Charosh  (even,square/triangular numbers)

Ocean Counting: Odd Numbers - Jerry Pallotta

Odds and Evens - Thomas O'Brien

One Odd Day - Doris Fisher (odd and even numbers)

Underwater Counting: Even Numbers - Jerry Pallotta

Zero

A Place for Zero - Angeline Sparagna Lopresti

Zero is not Nothing - Mindel and Harry Sitomer

Measurements/Mapping

Blast Off of Earth!: A Look at Geography - Loreen Leedy

Bug Dance - Stuart Murphy (directions)

Dear Benjamin Banneker - Brian Pinkney (land surveyor)

Felix Explores Planet Earth - Annette Langen

How Big Is a Foot? - Rolf Myller

How Little and How Much: A Book about Scales - Franklyn M. Branley

How Much and How Many - Jeanne Bendick

How Tall, How Short, How Faraway - David Adler

If You Hopped Like a Frog - David M. Schwartz

Inch By Inch - Leo Lionni

Inchworm and a Half - Elinor J. Pinczes

How Long or How Wide? – Brian Cleary

Learning About Measurement - Sylvia Horne

Librarian Who Measured the Earth - Kevin Hawkes

Long and Short of Measurements - Vicki Cobb

Mapping Penny's World - Loreen Leedy

Many Moons - James Thurber (size, distance)

Measuring Penny - Loreen Leedy

Mighty Maddie - Stuart Murphy (comparing weights)

Millions to Measure - David M. Schwartz

On the Scale, a Weighty Tale – Brian Cleary

Pigs in the Pantry - Amy Axelrod (measuring and following directions)

Polly's Pen Pal - Stuart Murphy (metrics)

Room for Ripley - Stuart Murphy (capacity)

So Big!  My First Measuring Book - Keith Falkner

Super Saturday Sand Castle - Stuart Murphy (measuring)

Sven's Bridge - Anita Lobel

Too Many Cooks - Andrea Buckless

Treasure Map - Stuart Murphy (mapping)

Weighing & Balancing - Jane Jonas Srivastava

What's Up With That Cup? - Sheila Keenan

Where's My Teddy? - Jez Albourough

Who Put the Pepper in the Pot? - Joanna Cole

Comparing/Estimating

Actual Size - Steve Jenkins

Averages - Jane Jonas Srivastava

Best Bug Parade - Stuart Murphy

Betcha! - Stuart Murphy

Bigger and Smaller - Robert Froman

Biggest, Strongest, Fastest - Steve Jenkins

Counting on Frank - Rod Clement

Dave's Down to Earth Rock Shop - Stuart Murphy (classifying)

Estimation - Charles Linn

Equal Shmequal - Virginia Kroll

Fattest, Tallest, Biggest Snowman Ever - Bettina Ling

Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest - Steve Jenkins

How Much, How Many, How Far..... - Helen Nolan

How Tall, How Short, How Far Away - David Adler

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie - Alison Jackson

If You Hopped Like a Frog - David Schwartz

Is the Blue Whale the Biggest Thing Ever? - Robert Wells

Jim and the Beanstalk - Raymond Briggs

Just Enough Carrots - Stuart Murphy

Long, Short, High, Low, Thin, Wide - James T. Fey

Mice Twice - Joseph Low (size, perspective)

Mighty Maddie - Stuart Murphy (comparing weight)

More or Less - Stuart Murphy (comparing numbers)

Much Bigger Than Martin - Steven Kellogg

Slower Than a Snail - Anne Schreiber

So Big!  My First Measuring Book - Keith Falkner

Tallest, Shortest, Longest, Greenest.... - Keith Falkner

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Simms Taback

Twice Upon a Time - Irwin Shapiro

What's Faster Than a Speeding Cheetah? - Robert Wells

What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew? - Robert Wells

What's Up With That Cup? - Sheila Keenan

Time

Bats Around the Clock - Kathi Appelt

Bunny Day:  Telling Time From Breakfast to Bedtime - Rick Walton

Chimp Math - Ann Whitehead Nagda (time)

Game Time! - Stuart Murphy (time)

Get Up and Go - Stuart Murphy (timelines)

Grouchy Ladybug - Eric Carle (clocks and calendars)

It's About Time - Stuart Murphy (hours)

Rodeo Time - Stuart Murphy (reading a schedule)

Time for Friends - Luke Holzmann

What Time is it Mr. Crocodile? - Judy Sierra

Money

26 Letters and 99 Cents - Tana Hoban

A Bargain for Frances - Russell Hoban

A Day's Work - Eve Bunting (value of work)

A Kid's Guide to Managing Money - Joy Wilt

A Quarter From the Tooth Fairy - Caren Holtzman

Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday - Judith Viorst (money management)

Arthur's Funny Money - Lillian Hoban

Benny's Pennies - Pat Brisson

Big Buck Adventure - Shelley Gill

Bunny Money - Rosemary Wells

Ginger & Pickles - Beatrix Potter (credit, borrowing, running business)

How Much is that Guinea Pig in the Window? - Joanne Rocklin

How to Get Fabulously Rich - Thomas Rockwell (chapter book)

If You Made a Million - David Schwartz

Irene and the Big Fine Nickel - Irene Smalls

Lunch Line - Karen Berman Nagel

Make Four Million Dollars by Next Thursday - Stephen Manes (chapter book)

Making Sense of Money - Vicki Cobb

Math Man - Teri Daniels (grocery store math story)

Monster Money - Penny Maccarone

Monster Money Book - Loreen Leedy

Money Tree - Sarah Stewart

Money Troubles - Bill Cosby Little Bill series

Mr. Monopoly's Amusement Park, A Math Adventure - Jackie Glassman

No Small Change - John Luksetich (money plus greater than concepts)

One Bright Penny - Geraldine McCaughrean

Penny Pot - Stuart Murphy (coin combinations)

Pigs Will Be Pigs - Amy Axelrod (money)

Slugger's Car Wash - Stuart Murphy (dollars and cents)

Tight Times - Barbara Shook Hazen (dad loses job)

Toothpaste Millionaire - Jean Merrill

Multiplication

512 Ant on Sullivan Street - Carol Losi (doubling)

98, 99, 100.  Ready or Not, Here I Come - Teddy Slater (skip counting of various numbers)

Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream - Cindy Neuschwander (multiplication as fast counting)

Arctic Fives Arrive - Elinor Pinczes (skip counting by 5s)

Building Tables on Tables: A Book about Multiplication - John V. Trivett

Bunches of Bunnies - Louise Mathews (intro to multiplication)

Double the Ducks - Stuart Murphy (doubling)

Elsie Times Eight - Natalie Babbitt

Grapes of Math - Greg Tang (moving into multiplication)

Henry and the Boy Who Thought Fleas Were Numbers - Marjorie Kaplan (multiplication tables)

Just Add Fun - Joann Rocklin (multiplication)

King's Commissioners - Aileen Friedman (multiplication, skip counting)

Math Appeal - Greg Tang (grouping and skip counting)

Multiplying Menace:  The Revenge of Rumpilstiltskin - Pam Calvert

One Hundred Hungry Ants - Elinor Pinczes

Senefer: A Young Genius in Old Egypt - Beatrice Lumpkin (addition, multiplication)

Socrates and the Three Little Pigs - Mitsumasa Anno (advanced, but use for multiplication, skip counting)

Spunky Monkeys on Parade - Stuart Murphy (counting by 2s, 3s, 4s)

Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do - Stuart Murphy (intro to multiplication)

Two Ways to Count to Ten - Ruby Dee

Division

A Remainder of One - Elinor Pinczes (division, factors)

Cheetah Math - Ann Whitehead Nagda (division)

Divide and Ride - Stuart Murphy (division)

Doorbell Rang - Pat Hutchins (intro to division)

Great Divide: A Mathematical Marathon - Dayle Ann Dodds (halving)

Greatest Guessing Game: A Book about Dividing - Robert Froman

One Hungry Cat - Joann Rocklin (division)

Rabbit and Hare Divide an Apple - Harriet Ziefert

Spaghetti and Meatballs for All - Marilyn Burns (division)

Decimals

Calculator Mania - Planet Dexter editors (decimals)

Rounding

Coyotes All Around - Stuart Murphy (rounding)

Square Numbers

My Full Moon is Square - Elinor Pinczes (intro to square numbers)

Sea Squares - Joy Hulme (squaring)

Fractions

Apple Fractions - Jerry Pallotta

Doggone Lemonade Stand - Judy Bradbury (fractions)

Each Orange Has 8 Slices - Paul Giganti (addition, subtraction, division)

Eating Fractions - Bruce McMillan (fractions)

Everything is Coming up Fractions - John Bradford

Fraction Action - Loreen Leedy (fractions)

Fraction Fun - David Adler

Fractions are Parts of Things - J. Richard Dennis

Fractions Jugglers - Ruth Alexander Bell (fractions up to 12 so easier to understand)

Full House: An Invitation to Fractions - Dayle Ann Dodds - doubling and fractions

Give Me Half - Stuart Murphy (fractions)

Grandfather Tang's Story - Ann Tompert (fractions, tangrams, geometry)

Grizzly Gazette - Stuart Murphy (fractions)

Jump, Kangaroo, Jump - Stuart Murphy (fractions)

My Half Day – Doris Fisher

One Hungry Cat - Joann Rocklin (division, fractions)

Piece = Part = Portion - Scott Gifford (fractions, decimals, percents)

Pizza Math:  How Do Octopi Eat Pizza Pie (I Love Math) - Time Life Books  (fractions)

Polar Bear Math - Ann Whitehead Nagda (fractions)

Working With Fractions - David A. Adler -  fractions through pictures

Zoo Fair Shares - Patricia Whitehouse (portions, younger kids)

Zoo Math:  Case of the Missing Zebra Stripes (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

  

Number Families

Number Families - Jane Srivastava (number series)

Roman Numerals - David A. Adler

Thirteen - Remy Charlip

This is 4: The Idea of a Number - Arthur Razzell

What's a Pair?  What's a Dozen? - Stephen R. Swinburne

Negative Numbers

Less than Nothing is Really Something - Robert Froman

Less Than Zero - Stuart Murphy ($, graphing, negative numbers)

Large Numbers, Exponents, Infinity

512 Ants on Sullivan Street - Carol A. Losi (doubling exponentially)

Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar - Masaichiro Anno (size, perspective, counting, nesting, factorials)

Arm in Arm - Remy Charlip (paradox, infinite loops)

Is the Blue Whale the Biggest Thing Ever? - Robert Wells (why we have lg. numbers)

Hooray for Me - Remy Charlip (relationship, nesting)

How Much is a Million? - Frank Schwartz

Infinity, What Is It? - Marnie Luce

King's Chessboard - David Birch (doubling exponentially)

Math Curse - Jon Scieszka

Millions of Cats - Wanda Gag

On Beyond a Million - David Schwartz (lg. numbers, exponents)

One Grain of Rice - Demi (doubling exponentially)

Probability/Graphing
A Very Improbably Story - Edward  Einhorn (probability)

Anno's Magic Seeds - Masaichiro Anno

Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar - Masaichiro Anno

Best Vacation Ever - Stuart Murphy (collecting data)

Do You Wanna Bet? - Jean Cushman

Fractals, Googols and Other Mathematical Tales - Theoni Pappas

Graph Games - Frederique and Papy

Great Graph Contest - Loreen Leedy (graphs)

Lemonade for Sale - Stuart Murphy (bar graphs)

Less Than Zero - Stuart Murphy (graphing, negative numbers)

Number Devil - Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Odds & Chances for Kids -Manfred Riedel (probability, history, stories. Much is in storytelling form)

Pigs at Odds - Amy Axelrod

Pigs on the Ball - Amy Axelrod

Probably Penny - Loreen Leedy (probability)

Probably Pistachio - Stuart Murphy (probability)

Same Old Horse - Stuart Murphy (predictions)

Socrates and the Three Little Pigs - Tuyosi Mori

Sundae Scoop - Stuart Murphy (combinations)

Tiger Math - Ann Whitehead Nagda (graphing)

Geometry

3D, 2D, 1D - David Adler

A Cloak for the Dreamer - Aileen Friedman

Ancient Mystery of Tangrams - Quarto Children's Books

Angles are Easy as Pie - Robert Froman

Area - Jane Jonas Srivastava

Bigger, Better, Best - Stuart Murphy (area)

Boy With Square Eyes - Juliet Snape

Captain Invincible and the Space Ships - Stuart Murphy (3d shapes)

Circles - Mindel and Harry Sitomer

Circles and Curves - Arthur Razell

Eight Hands Round - Ann Whitford Paul (quilt design)

Ellipse - Mannis Charosh

Goat in the Rug - Charles Blood (Navajo weaving story)

Grandfather Tang's Story - Ann Tompert

Greedy Triangle - Marilyn Burns

Hamster Champs - Stuart Murphy (angles)

Harlequin - Remy Charlip

House for Birdie - Stuart Murphy (understanding capacity)

In Shadowland - Masaichiro Anno

Let's Fly a Kite - Stuart Murphy (symmetry)

Lines, Segments, Polygon - Mindel

Mighty Maddie - Stuart Murphy (comparing weights)

Mother, Mother, I Feel Sick... - Remy Charlip

Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry - Cindy Neuschwander

My Full Moon is Square - Elinor Pinczes (intro to square numbers)

Opt, An Illusionary Tale - Arline Baum (geometry, proportions, measurement)

Paper Crane - Molly Bang (origami)

Paper John - David Small (origami)

Patchwork Quilt - Valerie Flournoy

Quilt Counting - Lesa Cline-Ransome

Racing Around - Stuart Murphy (perimeter)

Reflections - Ann Jonas (symmetry, perspective)

Rubber Bands, Baseballs and Doughnuts: A Book about Topology - Robert Froman

Shadow Geometry - Daphne Harwood Trivett

Shape of Things - Dayle Ann Dodds

Shape Up: Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons - David Adler

Silly Story of Goldilocks and the Three Squares - Grace Maccarone

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi - Cindy Neuschwander

Sir Cumference and the First Round Table -  Cindy Newschwander (geometry shapes)

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland - Cindy Neuschwander

Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter -  Cindy Neuschwander

Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone - Cindy Neuschwander

Spaghetti and Meatballs for All - Marilyn Burns (area, perimeter, division)

Spider Weaver - Margaret Musgrove

Squarehead - Harriet Ziefert

Straight Lines, Parallel Lines, Perpendicular Lines - Mannis Charosh

Super Sand Castle Saturday - Stuart Murphy (measuring)

Three Pigs, One Wolf and Seven Magic Shapes - Grace MacCarone

Triangle, Square, Circle - William Wegman

Village of Round and Square Houses - Ann Grifalconi

What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras? – Julie Ellis

What Is It? Spin -about book - Beau Gardner

What is Symmetry? - Mindel and Harry Sitomer

When  a Line Bends...a Shape Begins - Rhonda Gowler Greene

Wing on a Flea - Ed Emberley

Who Took the Farmer's Hat? - Joan Nodset

  

Logic/Relationships/Problem Solving

Anno's Hat Tricks - Masaichiro Anno

Case of the Backyard Treasure - Joanne Rocklin

Case of the Missing Birthday Party - Joanne Rocklin

Galaxy Getaway (Math for Martians) - Julie Ferris, 2nd or 3rd grade (problem solving)

Hooray for Me! - Remy Charlip

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - Laura Joffe Numeroff, other books from series as well

One Fine Day - Nonny Hogrogian

Only One - Marc Harshman

Planet Omnicrom (Math for Martians) - Julie Ferris (problem solving)

Shortcut - David Macaulay

Solomon Grundy, Born on Oneday: A Finite Arithmetic Puzzle - Malcolm E. Weiss

Terrible Tiger - Jack Prelutsky

That's Good, That's Bad - Joan Lexau

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Simms Taback

Tic-Tac-Toe, Three in a Row - Judith Bauer Stamper

Tikki Tikki Tembo - Arlene Mosel

Why I Will Never Ever Ever Ever Have Enough Time to Finish This Book - Remy Charlip

Why the Chicken Crossed the Road - David Macaulay

Yes, No, Stop, Go - Judith Gersting

http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~jameis/index.html (math stories and problem solving)

Algebra

666 Jellybeans! All That? An Introduction to Algebra - Malcolm E. Weiss

Ready, Set, Hop - Stuart Murphy (building equations)

Safari Park - Stuart Murphy (finding unknowns)

Other concepts/Multiple Concepts

Alice in Numberland (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Bug Dance - Stuart Murphy (directions)

Case of the Missing Zebra Stripes (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Dinosaur Deals - Stuart Murphy (equivalent values)

Fortunately - Remy Charlip (opposites, prediction)

From Head to Toe: Body Math (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Greatest Gymnast of All - Stuart Murphy (opposites)

House That Math Built: House Math (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Just Enough Carrots - Stuart Murphy (comparing quantities)

Look Both Ways, City Math (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Missing Math, A Number Mystery - Loreen Leedy (why we need numbers)

Mystery of the Sunken Treasure: Sea Math (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Pigs in the Corner - Amy Axelrod (directions)

Pterodactyl Tunnel: Amusement Park Math (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Right in Your Own Backyard: Nature Math (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Rosie's Walk - Pat Hutchins (spatial relationships)

Search For the Mystery Planet: Space Math (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Seven Chinese Brothers - Margaret Mahy (cause/effect, relationship chain)

Some Things Go Together - Charlotte Zolotow (relationships, matching)

Statistics - Jane Srivastava (excellent intro to statistics for younger)

Venn Diagrams - Robert Froman

  

Videos

Math Monsters (Slim Goodbody) - www.mathmonsters.com has some free clips to watch

Schoolhouse Rock

Leap Frog Math Circus

Googol Power - www.googolpower.com has some free clips

Cyberchase

Mathtacular 1, 2 and 3

Upper Elementary

13 Clocks - James Thurber (logic, has other books as well)

A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears - Jules Feiffer (logic, has other books as well)

Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat - Theoni Pappas

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (logic)

Archimedes and the Door of Science - Jeanne Bendick (simple machines, etc)

Beanstalk: The Measure Of A Giant - Ann McCallum

Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares - Frank Murphy

Book of Think - Marilyn Burns (logic)

Boy Who Reversed Himself - William Sleator

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin A. Abbott

Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So - Ian Stewart

G is for Googol - David Schwartz

I Hate Mathematics Book - Marilyn Burns

How To Lie With Charts - Gerald Everett Jones

How To Lie With Statistics - Darrell Huff

Jack Tales - Richard Chase

Joy of Mathematics - Theoni Pappas

Life by the Numbers - Kevin Devlin

Man in the Ceiling - Jules Feiffer

Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures - Malba Tahan

Mathematicians Are People, Too – Luetta and Wilbert Reimer

Mathematicians Are People, Too: Volume 2 – Luetta and Wilbert Reimer

Math Curse - Jon Scieszka

Math Trek - Ivars Peterson (logic games, etc)

Math Trek 2 - Ivars Peterson

Math Smart Junior - Marcia Lerner (upper elementary, covers both subjects)

More Stories to Solve - George Shannon

Murderous Maths series - Kjartan Poskitt (in the following order)

Murderous Maths - (basics plus some random things)

More Murderous Maths  (area, plus lots of random things)

Essential Arithmaticks - (addition, subtraction, division, multplication)

The Mean and Vulgar Bits (fractions and averages)

Desperate Measures: Length, Area, Volume

Do You Feel Lucky? (probability)

Vicious Circles and Other Savage Shapes (geometry)

Numbers: Keys to the Universe (facts about numbers, not so much a math how-to)

Phantom X (algebra)

Fiendish Angletron (trig, geometry, ratios)

Perfect Sausage and Other Fundamental Formulas (book of formulas w/explanations)

Number Devil - Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

Planiverse - A.K. Dewdney

Power of UN - Nancy Etchemendy

Riddle-Iculous Math - Joan Holub

String, Straightedge and Shadow - Julia Diggins

Sylvie and Bruno - Lewis Carroll (logic)

Ten Things All Future Mathematicians and Scientists Must Know... -  Edward Zacarro

Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? - Richard J. Maybury (economics)