Picture Book Lists: Science & Math Concepts

Melia is scientific and loves to create things in her backyard laboratory, but something is missing. Her inventions just aren't quite right. Enter Jo, her new friend with an artistic spirit. When you add the arts to sciences, something magical happens! (description from catalog)

Max and his brothers drive to Shapeville and Count Town searching for problems, and are able to use their skills in arithmetic and sleuthing to help get things ready for a rocket launch. (description from catalog)

Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was . . . nothing. But then . . . BANG! A seamless blend of science and art, this picture book reveals the composition of our world and beyond -- and how we are all the stuff of stars. (description from catalog)

While visiting her grandparents, who run whale-watching tours in Jamaica, Rocket sees first-hand how plastic is harming ocean creatures, and organizes a crew to clean up the local beach. (description from catalog)

Introduction to number concepts. (description from catalog)

Charlie and Lola choose a single treat at the store, count ladybugs, note the lateness of the time, and are introduced to other simple math concepts. (description from catalog)

What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity ... Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book. (description from catalog)

A young child describes the changes they see throughout the year when they climb the living room chair to look out the windows.

From poplars to pines, alder, apple, peach, and plum, this rhyming story introduces the concept of orders of magnitude and celebrates the importance of planting different trees and preserving diverse ecosystems. Nurturing a new sapling is one of the first steps in growing hundreds, millions, even trillions of trees. (description provided by the publisher)

In rhyming text, illustrates through the concept of DNA how we are all part of the human race. (description from catalog)

Cece, a budding and inquisitive scientist, and her equally curious best friend Isaac conduct experiments to see whether Cece's dog Einstein will eat his vegetables. (description from catalog)

A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup. (description from catalog)

A look at the numbers that surround us, big and small, on earth and in outer space, (description provided by the publisher)

"Two curious bunnies enjoy watching clouds go by. But when they look at the sky, they see something completely different! While one bunny likes to use his imagination the other bunny can only see the scientific. Together they learn that cloud watching is much more fun when they see it through each other's eyes"-- Provided by publisher.

From cloud to puddle, and puddle to stream, Little Raindrop is making its way on the remarkable journey that is Earth's water cycle. (description provided by the publisher)

Children explore their five senses, learning what they can see, smell, hear, touch, and taste. (description from catalog)

Die-cut pages invite reader to explore how Earth is a friend to all creatures, watching over us as the year cycles through the seasons. (description from catalog)

Two bugs, Ralph and Flora, try to divide thirteen beans so that the unlucky thirteenth bean disappears, but they soon discover that the math is not so easy. (description from catalog)

This book takes readers on a journey through the wonders concealed in the curves of the canyon, and all the secret life hidden in its arms. (description provided by the publisher)

Over the snow, the world is hushed and white, but under the snow is a secret world of squirrels and snowshoe hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many others who live outside in the woods during the winter. (description from catalog)

When Trapezoid auditions for the Shapes in Space play, Triangle, Star, and all the other shapes insist that he sounds like a some kind of dinosaur and certainly does not fit in with them. (description from catalog)

This engaging and educational picture book about protecting our waterways follows a classroom as they build a rain garden, empowering readers with the tools to reduce pollution, diminish flooding and create a habitat for wildlife. Published from Catalog.

A boy is inspired by a pet fish and fueled by imagination to tell a whimsical version of his own life story, which mirrors the process of human evolution. (description from Amazon)

Jack describes the kind of car he would build--one with amazing accessories and with the capability of traveling on land, in the air, and on and under the sea. (description from catalog)