Alphabet & Counting Books

Numbers and letters are the building blocks of all education. Students would never learn differential calculus if they weren't first taught to count, and they wouldn't read The Brothers Karamazov if they didn't know their ABCs long before. It stands to reason, then, that if we want to raise children who actually enjoy learning, we'll do our best to make their first steps on that path fun and exciting.

What could be more exciting than a dinosaur for every letter of the alphabet? or three bipedal animals teaching basic counting? or showing kids how to count from one to ten....in Swahili? Some of the best children's illustrators have supplied artwork for books like these, so that young readers are actually learning to identify numerals and letters while absorbing beautiful and engaging pictures.

Some titles are even more educational than just teaching the basics—a series from Sleeping Bear Press offers stunningly illustrated "state alphabets" which teach kids each letter A-Z through U.S. state-specific words and phrases. For example, T is for Tar-Heel is a North Carolina alphabet; B is for Beaver State uses Oregon words. We don't carry them all yet, but there's an alphabet book for each of the fifty states.

We really don't think kids should be committed to learning simply because it's fun. There are times in anyone's academic career (whether as a kindergartner or graduate student) when learning is difficult and a drudgery. But we're more likely to end up with children who enjoy picking up a book or completing a math lesson if we make it a positive experience from the outset—the books in this category can help toward that end.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
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A is for Adam
by Ken Ham, Mally Ham
from Master Books
for 1st-2nd grade
in Worldview & Apologetics for Kids (Location: BIBWV-APK)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
ABC Doctor
by Liz Murphy
from Chronicle Books
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Amazing Animal Alphabet
by Brian Wildsmith
from Star Bright
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Angry Book
by Robin King
from W. W. Norton and Co.
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$25.00 (1 in stock)
Animal Characters
by Jean Christian Knaff
from Picture Book Studio
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Animal Orchestra
by Scott Gustafson
from Greenwich Workshop Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Animalia
by Graeme Base
from Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
for Kindergarten-3rd
in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Animals in the Zoo
by Feodor Rojankovsky
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Anno's Counting Book
by Mitsumasa Anno
from HarperCollins
for Preschool-1st grade
in Math Picture Books (Location: MATR-PIC)
$8.99 $4.50 (1 in stock)
Anno's Counting Book
by Mitsumasa Anno
from HarperCollins
for Preschool-1st grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
B is for Beaver
by Marie & Roland Smith, illustrated by Michael Roydon
from Sleeping Bear Press
for nursery-3rd grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$18.99 $8.50 (1 in stock)
B is for Bluegrass
Discover America State-by-State
by Mary Ann McCabe Riehle, illustrated by Wes Burgiss
from Sleeping Bear Press
for nursery-3rd grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$8.50 (1 in stock)
Biggest Story ABC
by Kevin DeYoung, illustrated by Don Clark
from Crossway Books
for Nursery-Preschool
in Board Books (Location: PIC-BOARD)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Brown Cow Farm
by Dahlov Ipcar
First Edition from Doubleday & Company
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Christmas Alphabet
by Robert Sabuda
from Orchard Books
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Christmas & Advent (Location: HOLIDAY)
$11.00 (1 in stock)
Circus Numbers
by Rodney Peppe
Revised from Delacorte Press
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
City Seen from A to Z
by Rachel Isadora
from Greenwillow Books
for Nursery-1st grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
EyeLike Letters
from Play Bac
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Farmer's Dozen
by Sandra Joanne Russell
Stated First Edition from Harper & Row
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Frog Alphabet Book
by Jerry Pallotta
from Charlesbridge
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
From Akebu to Zapotec
by June Hathersmith
from Wycliffe Bible Translators
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Church History for Kids (Location: XCH-KID)
$3.60 (2 in stock)
Gunnywolf
by A. Delaney
from Harper & Row
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb
Bright & Early Books
by Al Perkins
from Random House Books for Young Readers
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Beginner Books (Location: EAR-BB)
$9.99 $5.00 (1 in stock)
Hosie's Alphabet
by Hosea, Tobias and Lisa Baskin, illustrated by Leonard Baskin
from Viking Press
for Nursery-2nd grade
1973 Caldecott Honor Book
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
How Much Is a Million?
by David M. Schwartz
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$2.50 (1 in stock)
Illustrated Comic Alphabet
by Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon
from Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
In a Pumpkin Shell
by Joan Walsh Anglund
from Harcourt, Brace & World
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$18.00 (1 in stock)
In the Small, Small Pond
by Denise Fleming
from Henry Holt and Company
Word Books for Nursery-Kindergarten
1994 Caldecott Honor Book
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$3.00 (2 in stock)
Knitting Knights
2nd edition from Logic of English, Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Logic of English (Location: PHO-LOE)
$15.00 $9.00 (1 in stock)
Mary Poppins from A to Z
by P. L. Travers, illustrated by Mary Shepard
from Harcourt, Brace & World
for 4th-7th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
My Big Golden Counting Book
by Lillian Moore, illustrated by Garth Williams
1978 Printing from Golden Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
My First Counting Book
by Lilian Moore
from Golden Books
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Little Golden Books (Location: PIC-GOLD)
$2.50 (1 in stock)
Only One Woof
by James Herriot, illustrated by Peter Barrett
from St. Martin's Press
Realistic Animal Stories for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Over on a Mountain Somewhere in the World
by Marianne Berkes, illustrated by Jill Dubin
from Dawn Publications
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Pigs from A to Z
by Arthur Geisert
from Houghton Mifflin
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Put Me In the Zoo
by Robert Lopshire
Book Club Edition from Random House
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Beginner Books (Location: EAR-BB)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
S is for S'mores
by Helen Foster James, illustrated by Lita Judge
from Sleeping Bear Press
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Teddy Bear ABC
by Laura Rinkle Johnson, illustrated by Margaret Landers Sanford
from Green Tiger Press
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Ten Seeds
by Ruth Brown
from Andersen Press
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Ten, Nine, Eight
by Molly Bang
from Greenwillow Books
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
1984 Caldecott Honor book
in Math Picture Books (Location: MATR-PIC)
$9.99 $4.00 (1 in stock)
The Ultimate Alphabet
by Mike Wilks
from Henry Holt and Company
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
The Ultimate Alphabet
by Mike Wilks
from Henry Holt and Company
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$7.50 (1 in stock)
Tooth Book
by Theo. LeSieg, illustrated by Joe Mathieu
from Random House Books for Young Readers
for 2nd-4th grade
in Beginner Books (Location: EAR-BB)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Turtle Splash!
by Cathryn Falwell
from HarperCollins
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
What Will I Be from A to Z
by Donald L. Gelb
from National Dairy Council
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$2.00 (2 in stock)
Whistling Whales
from Logic of English, Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Logic of English (Location: PHO-LOE)
$14.99 $9.00 (1 in stock)
Winnie-the-Pooh's ABC
by A.A. Milne (original works), illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard
1st edition from Dutton Juvenile
for Preschool-1st grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$2.50 (1 in stock)
Yucky Reptile Alphabet Book
by Jerry Pallotta, Illustrated by Ralph Masiello
from Charlesbridge
for Preschool-1st grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$4.00 (1 in stock)