Attack of the Mutant Mangos: A Fruit Salad Ballad of Baddies

Poet: Andrew Fusek Peters

"They are totally bananas

They hang out in a bunch..." p. 77

A glorious poem with word play and fantastic descriptions of characteristics. Good link to a maths project on fruit salads.

One Is a Snail Ten Is a crab

Authors: April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre

Illustrator: Randy Cecil

Useful for display ideas and mixing numeracy and literacy.

Would be useful to get snail, dog, insect, spider, and crab toys so children can count the legs.

The Real Princess A Mathemagical Tale

Author: Brenda Williams

Illustrator: Sophie Fatus

Good for putting numbers in context. Requires subtraction and remembering numbers. Playing with the fairy tale.

A Silly Thing To Do

Poet: Peter Dixon

A Silly Thing to Do, p. 56, is a great poem for looking at gravity. Dinosaurs, p. 38 is also great for looking at myths. A Walk with Daniel, p. 22, looks at shadows.

One Hundred Hungry Ants

Author: Elinor J. Pinczes

Illustrator: Bonnie Mackain

I enjoyed the rhyme in this book and it will be useful for cross curricular lessons.