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Book List
Knowing a Poem
What, Why, Wonder
5 Books We Love

Book List

365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental and Joelle Jolivet
Don’t Count Your Chickns by Simon Puttock and Ross Collins
Everybody Counts by Kristin Roskifte
How Many Legs By Jim Field and Kes Gray
How Much Does A Ladybird Weigh By Alison Limentani
How To Count To One by Caspar Salmon and Matt Hunt
Lifesize Ocean Animals by Sophy Henn
Martha Maps It Out by Leigh Hodgkinson
My Cat Likes To Hide In Boxes by Eve Sutton and Lynley Dodd
One Cat Two Cats by Jonathan Emmett and Rob Hodgson
One is Not A Piar – a spotting book by Britta Teckentrup
Ten On A Twig by Lo Cole
We Are The Shapes by Kevin Jenner

Knowing a Poem

Eighteen Flavors by Shel Silverstein

Eighteen luscious, scrumptious flavors—
Chocolate, lime and cherry,
Coffee, pumpkin, fudge-banana,
Caramel cream and boysenberry,
Rocky road and toasted almond,
Butterscotch, vanilla dip,
Butter-brickle, apple ripple,
Coconut and mocha chip,
Brandy peach and lemon custard,
Each scoop lovely, smooth, and round,
Tallest ice-cream cone in town,
Lying there (sniff) on the ground

How many scoops of ice cream would you have on your cone? How many before it falls down? This poem has many opportunities to explore different mathematical concepts.

What, Why, Wonder

How Much Does a Ladybird Weigh? By Alison Limentani

What does a ladybird weigh? A snail? A swan? In her extraordinary picture book Alison Limentani introduces children to a fascinating world of wildlife, weight, numbers and comparisons. Did you know that five starlings weigh the same as one squirrel – or that three rabbits weigh the same as one fox cub?

5 Books we love

This fun book will get you counting from 0 to 7.5 billion, but also to do so much more. Follow the characters’ stories through the book and see how their lives collide with those of others.

In One is Not a Pair, each patterned page contains a set of pairs . . . but one thing does not match any of the others. Can you find it?
Where is the broken pencil amongst the matching sets? Which teddy bear does not have an identical twin? Which house is the only completely different one on the street?

Watch the birds fall as the pages turn in this interactive picture book from the publisher of the Don’t Push the Button series! In this charming, deceptively simple counting book, ten birds sit on a twig. As each falls off, they take a piece of the twig with them, and in the end, they have a new home―just in time to say goodnight. 

A real-world maths book based on the popular song by Tom Lehrer about the maths children use every day when they count, play, share, bake, do sport or move to music.

Featuring charmingly simple illustrations and plenty of puns, We Are the Shapes is a truly fun introduction to shapes that children will love to read time and time again.

Contacts

Ali Carrington, Early Years Consultant

Anna Morgan, Early Years Consultant

ali.carrington@bristol.gov.uk

anna.morgan@bristol.gov.uk
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