Recommended Children’s Literature



Recommended Children’s Literature

I. Books that Exemplify Positive Attitudes and Dispositions

Lasky, Kathryn. 1994. The Librarian Who Measured the Earth. Boston: Little, Brown.

Lasky, Kathryn. 1997. The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy. New York: Harcourt Brace.

Lasky, Kathryn. 2003. The Man Who Made Time Travel. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux.

Pinkney, Andrea Davis. 1994. Dear Benjamin Banneker. New York: Harcourt Brace.

Reimer, Luetta, & Wilbert Reimer. 1990. Mathematicians are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians. Volume I. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Reimer, Luetta, & Wilbert Reimer. 1993. Mathematicians are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians. Volume II. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Thimmesh, Catherine. 2000. Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Inventions by Women. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Thimmesh, Catherine. 2002. The Sky’s the Limit: Stories of Discovery by Women and Girls. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Wyatt, Valerie. 2000. The Math Book for Girls and Other Beings Who Count. Toronto: Kids Can Press.

II. Puzzles and Games

Agee, Jon. 2002. Palindromania. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Anno, Mitsumasa. 1985. Anno’s Hat Tricks. New York: Philomel.

Bourke, Linda. 1995. Eye Count. San Francisco: Chronicle.

Ford, Barbara. 2003. Tangrams. Vallejo, CA: Tandora’s Box Press.

Walter, Marion. 1985. The Mirror Puzzle Book. Norfolk, England: Tarquin Publications.

Zaslavsky, Claudia. 1998. Math Games and Activities From Around the World. Chicago: Chicago Review Press.

Zaslavsky, Claudia. 2003. More Math Games and Activities From Around the World. Chicago: Chicago Review Press.

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