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10 best books like A Million Dots (Andrew Clements): The Weight of a Mass: A Tale of Faith, Of Numbers and Stars: The Story of Hypatia, Chameleon, Chameleon, One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab: A Counting by Feet Book, Arlene Sardine, That's a Possibility!: A Book About What Might Happen, What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?, Spot the Plot: A Riddle Book of Book Riddles, Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci, Yucky Worms

The Weight of a Mass: A Tale of Faith
AuthorJosephine Nobisso
ISBN0940112094
When a poor devout widow begs for a scrap of bread from a rich faithless baker, she promises to participate in the king’s wedding mass as payment for the baker’s generosity. The baker writes “One Mass” on a scrap of paper and places it on his scale to determine how much bread it is worth. To his and...
Of Numbers and Stars: The Story of Hypatia
AuthorD. Anne Love
ISBN0823416216
I feel very divided in reviewing this book, and torn between giving it three and four stars.

Things I like: This kid-friendly version of the story of Hypatia, a girl born Alexandria in the fourth century CE in a time when girls are not supposed to study philosophy or mathematics or science. But,...
Chameleon, Chameleon
AuthorJoy Cowley
ISBN0439666538
This companion to award-winning RED-EYED TREE FROG gives young readers an amazing close-up view of the colorful, quirky chameleon.

Experience close-up the many moods (and colors) of chameleons. One brave chameleon ventures from the safety of his tree in search of a new home. On his journey,...
One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab: A Counting by Feet Book
AuthorApril Pulley Sayre
ISBN1844281647
One is a snail, two is a person, three is a snail and a person, four is a dog, five is a dog and a snail!

This is a really clever book which has strong cross curricular links with numeracy. The author is using feet/footprints as a counting tool. This is a great book which can be used across all primary...
Arlene Sardine
AuthorChris Raschka
ISBN0531301117
Born in a fjord, a tiny fish named Arlene wants to be a sardine. Fully grown by two, she swims into a big purse net along with thousands of friends from her school. After three days and three nights, she is lifted out of the water and dropped onto the deck of a fishing boat, where she dies. But that's not the end...
That's a Possibility!: A Book About What Might Happen
AuthorBruce Goldstone
ISBN0805089985
With colorful photographs and interactive examples, Bruce Goldstone introduces children to the ideas of something being possible, probable, or impossible. Each spread features an easy-to-understand scenario such as dice rolling, with questions about probable outcomes and simple explanations....
What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?
AuthorSteve Jenkins
ISBN0618152431
Steve Jenkins details the many interesting and unique defense mechanisms animals use to escape from danger in this nonfiction/informational picture book. The cut out paper collages as the illustrations are interesting and beautifully done. It was one of the first things that caught my eye about...
Spot the Plot: A Riddle Book of Book Riddles
AuthorJ. Patrick Lewis
ISBN0811846687
Spot the Plots takes the reader, along with two young detectives and their dog to figure out the stories that are being discussed on each page. The riddles, which are set up as poems, are interesting because they are of many various forms and lengths. Sometimes their forms are even part of the clues. The...
Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
AuthorJoseph D'Agnese
ISBN0805063056
As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead.

When Leonardo grew up and traveled the world, he was inspired by the numbers used in different countries. Then he realized that many things in...
Yucky Worms
AuthorVivian French
ISBN0763644463
Here’s to nature’s recyclers! Kids will burrow right into this book about the industrious — and danger-filled — life of the delightfully yucky earthworm.

Who would want to be friends with a wiggly, slimy worm? You can’t even tell which end is which! But there’s more to these lowly...
How Many Jelly Beans?
AuthorAndrea Menotti
Boy, I tell you. You get a kid and suddenly you find yourself scheming all these crazy schemes. “I’m going to get my kid to like vegetables!” “I’m going to get my kid to appreciate classical music!” “I’m going to get my kid to like math!” Crazy, right? I mean the first two seem doable,...
Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature
AuthorSarah C. Campbell
ISBN1590787528
This title deals with the biggest mathematical mystery in nature - Fibonacci numbers! Named after a famous mathematician, the number pattern is simple: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...Each number in the sequence comes from adding the two numbers before it. What's the mystery? The pattern crops up in the most unexpected...
Counting Crocodiles
AuthorJudy Sierra
ISBN0152163565
This is a delightful and humorous children’s picture book that would engage children and adults alike. I was so drawn to the text and counting the crocodiles that I did not even notice some of the illustrations where the fox and the monkey were stealing bananas until the very end—I had to go back and...
Quack and Count
AuthorKeith Baker
ISBN0152050256
Quack and Count, written by Keith Baker, is a math picture book that can help children learn how to count and use addition. It is based on 7 ducklings and on each page, the ducklings are split into different numbers that all add up to 7 to represent an addition equation. The children must come up with different...
Beetle Bop
AuthorDenise Fleming
ISBN0152059369
They crawl up walls, they hide in cracks, they flip, they fly, and sometimes . . . crrrash. Beetles come in all shapes and sizes, and they are everywhere in this thoroughly buggy, beautifully designed book.

There are striped beetles, spotted beetles, all-over-dotted beetles--and don't forget...
There's a Frog in My Throat!: 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me
AuthorLoreen Leedy
ISBN0823418197
Have you heard the buzz?

Kids book experts Pat Street and Loreen Leedy worked like dogs (that is, they worked very hard) to pull a rabbit out of a hat (do something amazing) and create this hilarious, comprehensive introduction to similes, metaphors, and idioms.

Pairing hilariously...
Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry
AuthorCindy Neuschwander
ISBN0805075054
Matt, Bibi, and their dog Riley crawled through the tiny opening first. FWUMP! A secret door suddenly closed behind them . . .

Matt and Bibi use math to escape from a pharaoh's tomb!

When the Zills family is summoned to Egypt to help find the hidden burial site of an ancient pharaoh, Matt...
100th Day Worries
AuthorMargery Cuyler
ISBN1416907890
When Jessica's teacher tells everyone in class to find 100 things to bring to school for their 100th day, Jessica starts to worry. She wants to bring something really good. but what?

100 marshmallows? No, too sticky.
100 yo-yos? Nah, that's silly.

When Jessica reaches the 99th...
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