Baby books about numbers?
October 24, 2017 5:20 PM Subscribe
Do you have a favorite baby book about numbers?
This is for the new baby of my own kid's math tutor & I would like the gift to be recognizable as specific to the tutoring relationship -- so not a book that's equally about colors, letters and numbers, for example.
I would prefer a book for babies or toddlers (a board book that basically just shows lovely pictures of numbers/objects with minimal text) and am looking for something fun and charming. Prefer not to get a brand like Sesame Street, Disney, etc. -- something a bit more unique. Thanks!
This is for the new baby of my own kid's math tutor & I would like the gift to be recognizable as specific to the tutoring relationship -- so not a book that's equally about colors, letters and numbers, for example.
I would prefer a book for babies or toddlers (a board book that basically just shows lovely pictures of numbers/objects with minimal text) and am looking for something fun and charming. Prefer not to get a brand like Sesame Street, Disney, etc. -- something a bit more unique. Thanks!
Pride and Prejudice: A Baby's Counting Primer
1 English village, 2 rich gentlemen, 3 houses, 4 marriage proposals, 5 sisters ...
Really Big Numbers is for kids a bit older, but it's very well-regarded for teaching younger children about number concepts. (There are a couple of others from the same author, they're all good.)
Ten, Nine, Eight is a bedtime book, it's cute (and has an African-American main character)
Eric Carle and Richard Scary both have "first book of numbers" books, if you're partial to either of them. Sandra Boynton has several, with "Doggies" being the most straightforward counting book. (Hippos Go Berserk is adding and subtracting hippos going to a party and leaving, so implicitly mathy, for example.)
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 5:50 PM on October 24, 2017 [4 favorites]
1 English village, 2 rich gentlemen, 3 houses, 4 marriage proposals, 5 sisters ...
Really Big Numbers is for kids a bit older, but it's very well-regarded for teaching younger children about number concepts. (There are a couple of others from the same author, they're all good.)
Ten, Nine, Eight is a bedtime book, it's cute (and has an African-American main character)
Eric Carle and Richard Scary both have "first book of numbers" books, if you're partial to either of them. Sandra Boynton has several, with "Doggies" being the most straightforward counting book. (Hippos Go Berserk is adding and subtracting hippos going to a party and leaving, so implicitly mathy, for example.)
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 5:50 PM on October 24, 2017 [4 favorites]
My favorite baby number book is and will always be Sandra Boynton's Hippos Go Berserk. Granted, it is not just pictures of numbers, but in other respects it fits your criteria; counts up AND down in bouncy, well-crafted, surprisingly re-readable rhymes; has a plotline that babies find delightful; and includes lots of sly visual humor, plus bonus arithmetic joke at the end. Highly recommended!
posted by Bardolph at 6:49 PM on October 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Bardolph at 6:49 PM on October 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
My kids absolutely love Count-a-Block and Richard Scarry's Best Counting Book Ever.
posted by gatorae at 7:03 PM on October 24, 2017
posted by gatorae at 7:03 PM on October 24, 2017
Best answer: Anno's Counting Book. Lovely drawings that, while not perhaps interesting for a tiny baby, will give a lot to talk about in the toddler years.
It starts with a relatively empty landscape - one house, one tree, one man, one bird, one flower, one child. Time passes on each page; the seasons turn, the number of each thing increments. By the end it's a bustling scene.
I think your tutor would appreciate it in the way you are hoping.
posted by telepanda at 7:43 PM on October 24, 2017
It starts with a relatively empty landscape - one house, one tree, one man, one bird, one flower, one child. Time passes on each page; the seasons turn, the number of each thing increments. By the end it's a bustling scene.
I think your tutor would appreciate it in the way you are hoping.
posted by telepanda at 7:43 PM on October 24, 2017
One Duck Stuck.
Island Counting 1 2 3 is great. The toddler can count the things; you can count the things on the things, and the things on the things on the things - there's some squaring and cubing going on among the 5 market ladies in their shady hats and the 6 cricket players waiting with their bats.
posted by clawsoon at 8:23 PM on October 24, 2017
Island Counting 1 2 3 is great. The toddler can count the things; you can count the things on the things, and the things on the things on the things - there's some squaring and cubing going on among the 5 market ladies in their shady hats and the 6 cricket players waiting with their bats.
posted by clawsoon at 8:23 PM on October 24, 2017
One Moose, Twenty Mice is a favorite in our house.
posted by chaiminda at 2:39 AM on October 25, 2017
posted by chaiminda at 2:39 AM on October 25, 2017
Seconding Count A Block. It saved our sanity, because our kid loved having it read to him over and over and it's much longer and more appealing than most other baby board books with numbers. The pictures are lovely.
posted by joyceanmachine at 4:38 AM on October 25, 2017
posted by joyceanmachine at 4:38 AM on October 25, 2017
Response by poster: Thanks to everyone for all these wonderful suggestions. There are so many great books here -- I hope others find this question, and I'm sure I'll return to these answers again for other gifts! This time I bought Anno's Counting Book, which seemed just right for this particular family, especially as they have a connection to a farm. Thanks again to everyone who answered.
posted by flourpot at 10:19 PM on October 30, 2017
posted by flourpot at 10:19 PM on October 30, 2017
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posted by brainmouse at 5:35 PM on October 24, 2017