Math for Preschoolers

Grandfather tells a story about shape-changing fox fairies who try to best each other until a hunter brings danger to both of them.

The rooster, dog, sheep, cow, pig, and other animals on a farm are made up of colorful shapes such as square, circle, rectangle, and triangle. Features die-cut pages.

Rhymed text tells a hypothetical story about a Giraffe, and the many things that could happen to this giraffe...IF. The poems starts with "If you had a giraffe..." and continues by building along these lines with all sorts of different "ifs" and their conclusions.

A mysterious man enters a restaurant and pays for his dinner with a paper crane that magically comes alive and dances.

Food is cut into halves, quarters, and thirds to illustrate how parts make a whole. Simple recipes included.

After the old woman cuts off his tail when he steals her milk, the fox must go through a long series of transactions before she will sew it back on again.

A band of mischievous monkeys steals every one of a peddler's caps while he takes a nap under a tree.

Each time the doorbell rings, there are more people who have come to share Ma's wonderful cookies.

Text and pictures try to make possible the conceptualization of a million, a billion, and a trillion.

At first, Bartholomew Cubbins had just one hat, but when the King ordered him to take it off, he found that he cound not--each time there was another on his head.