The Best Counting & Number Books for Kids

One quiet boy acquires nine increasingly impossible visitors, then counts every one of them straight back out.

Babies born in different places share the same irresistible equipment: ten little fingers and ten little toes.

An empty winter field grows into a busy town as the months and quantities advance from zero through twelve.

A lion, a dog, and a tiger balance an ever-growing stack of apples while walking, jumping rope, and skating toward ten.

A very busy population of peas counts past ten, past twenty, and onward by tens all the way to one hundred.

Numbers race up an apple tree from one to one hundred, until a swarm of bees sends the whole sequence tumbling.

Ten plain black circles become suns, eyes, wheels, buttons, and whatever else a child can imagine.

Grandma Beetle has ten party preparations to finish, and Death will simply have to wait while she counts them in two languages.

One famished fox, two sly eyes, three unsuspecting hens — and a count that tightens like a spring.

A family counts its way through the market, the kitchen, and the table until ten people can sit down to eat.

If a snail is one and a person is two, how many crabs, dogs, insects, and beachgoers does it take to make one hundred feet?

Three classroom pumpkins look easy to rank — until their seeds are sorted, grouped, and actually counted.

A mathematical magician stretches a million, a billion, and a trillion into distances, crowds, and stacks a child can picture.

Trillions of trees, quadrillions of ants, and a sky full of numbers too large to picture arrive through comparisons a child can hold onto.

A boy who hates math spends twelve dreams arguing with a red-faced guide to primes, Fibonacci numbers, triangles, and infinity.