10 Fun Counting Books Your Students Will Love

Grandma’s Tiny House is a classroom favorite. This book counts from one to fifteen and grandma’s family and friends fill her house. The books is filled with rhyming and beautiful pictures that my students love.

I had the pleasure of listening to JaNay Brown-Wood present over the summer and adding her books to my library has been a must in my classroom. I think it’s a must for your classroom, too!

10 Black Dots has always been a classic counting book. I think I remember seeing this book during my school career. My students still love this book. We like to read it and see what we’re able to make when we’re given groups of dots in the classroom.

I have always loved the bold graphics in this books and my students love to explore this book in their free time, too.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a sucker for any book that has dogs in it. In 10 Little Hot Dogs these adorable Dachshunds are climbing up on a chair to play, but before you know it, the little hot dogs are all ready for a nap. They snuggle up, but when one starts waking up, they all want to join in the fun! This is a great book to practice counting forward and backward from 10.

Chicken Break is a classroom favorite for counting back from 10 to 1. This book has humor and suspense. My students love seeing how the chickens are going to escape their coop and what they’re going to get up to once they do! This is a fun book for anyone who enjoys a little chicken mischief.

This is a fun counting book that is set in the African wild. In the book Roar! a little lion cub is looking for someone to play with him, but he’s just a little bit too noisy. The rhyming style of this book makes it a fun read that students like to follow along with. My students love to roar along with the little lion, too.

The book Ten Animals in Antarctica is full of beautiful illustrations and students love exploring the animals of Antarctica. This counting book is full of rhymes that my students quickly catch on to as we read. Not only is this book full of counting fun, you’ll also find fun information about the continent of Antacrtica.

I absolutely love the book How Many? by Christopher Danielson. This open ended counting book is a great addition to any classroom. On each page you’ll find a fun, engaging photographic and the cue “How Many?”. Student can then count from a variety of images on the page. I love this book for a start to math talks. It allows my students to show how they can see different things in the same image. It translates well when they start to talk about the different ways they see groups of numbers.

Want a fun way to introduce your students to counting by twos? The book Eggs and Legs is a great way for students to start visualizing groups of 2s as they count the legs poking out of eggs on the farm. This books has fun, colorful illustrations that are engaging to students.

Toasty Toes is a fun book to introduce counting by tens. This fun trip to the beach is full of toes to count. The engaging illustrations make it fun to read aloud. We expanded on this book by counting by 10s to figure out how many toes we had in our classroom.