Concepts: Counting, Colors & Shapes
 
Cat's Colors
by Airlie Anderson

Cat spends the day collecting colors, and when she is finished something wonderful happens
Big box of shapes
by Wiley Blevins

When they find a box full of shapes, Lulu and Max use their imagination to combine the simple shapes to make something new
I see 1, 2, 3 : count your community with Sesame Street
by Jennifer Boothroyd

"This fun, friendly text introduces counting techniques in the child's world through friendly text, colorful photography, and Sesame Street Muppets. That's a Fact! features throughout present nonfiction facts to help engage continued learning"
The artist who painted a blue horse
by Eric Carle

A vibrantly colored story by the award-winning author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar invites youngsters to tap into their creativity through the story of an artist who painted the world just as he saw it in his imagination. Includes biographical information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s.
Freight train
by Donald Crews

The train rolls along slowly at first, slowly enough to count the cars, name their colors, and identify their functions, until it starts to pick up speed, chug-chugging across the page in a blur of color, speed, and sound. Reprint. Caldecott Honor Book.
Curious encounters : 1 to 13 forest friends
by Ben Clanton

"An original and creative approach to a 32-page counting book - from 1 to 12 - that features PNW critters"
From the garden : a counting book about growing food
by Michael Dahl

Introduces the numbers from one to twelve as family members pick a variety of vegetables from the garden. Includes counting activities and fun facts about growing vegetables
The day the crayons quit
by Drew Daywalt

When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them. 
Color zoo
by Lois Ehlert

A magical manipulation of shapes turns a lion into a goat, an ox into a monkey, and a tiger into a mouse, in a board book that features nine animals, nine shapes, and sixteen shades of color.
The Everything Book
by Denise Fleming

A collection of simple works which introduce colors, shapes, numbers, animals, food, and nursery rhymes
It's an orange aardvark!
by Michael Hall

Wondering about an unusual noise they hear outside their tree stump, five carpenter ants imagine various possibilities before peering out of holes and seeing an astonishing rainbow of colors. By the best-selling creator of My Heart Is Like a Zoo. 
123 pop!
by Rachel Isadora

In this counting book that's fun for all ages, the author combines numbers and counting with the familiar and appealing style of pop art.
My shape is Sam
by Amanda Jackson

In a world where everyone is a shape and knows their job, a square who longs for softer corners, rounded edges and the ability to roll takes an unexpected tumble before discovering to his delight that he does not have to be what others expect. 
Ones and twos
by Marthe Jocelyn

In a colorful title by an award-winning author and her daughter, each page invites children to identify familiar objects--singularly or in pairs--ranging from kites to socks, giving toddlers and their caregivers much to discuss and to enjoy together.
A color of his own
by Leo Lionni

A little chameleon is distressed that he doesn't have his own color like other animals
10 hungry rabbits : counting & color concepts
by Anita Lobel

Introducing the early learning concepts of counting and color, this entertaining picture book follows 10 hungry rabbits as they find 10 super-scrumptious vegetables for Mama Rabbit's soup pot. 
Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?
by Bill Martin

Children see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and a teacher looking at them
Big Book of Colors
by Michelle Martinez

Learn colors with, the Big Book of Colors, an oversized book perfectly sized for little readers!
Counting
by Aino-Maija Metsola

Small children are invited to practice counting from one to 10 in a stylishly designed book of numbers that features bold illustrations, tactile accents, interactive lift-flaps and visual surprises on every spread.
Tangled : a story about shapes
by Anne Miranda

"An unruly gang of sixteen geometric shapes gets tangled in the neighborhood jungle gym until their friend comes to their rescue and order is restored"
Friendshape
by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Presents a story of friends Triangle, Circle, Square, and Rectangle as they have fun together and support one another through life
Festival of colors
by Kabir Sehgal

Siblings Chintoo and Mintoo gather flowers and make colorful powders in anticipation of India's springtime celebration of Holi, before putting on their white clothing and joining family members, friends and neighbors in covering each other with vibrant hues during the Festival of Colors. 20,000 first printing. Illustrations.
Round is a tortilla : a book of shapes
by Roseanne Thong

A little girl discovers things that are round, square, and rectangular in her Hispanic American neighborhood
Mouse paint
by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Engaging little mice splash about with their paints and demonstrate colors and shapes to very young children.
Bear sees colors
by Karma Wilson

A first entry in a concept picture book series by the best-selling creators of Bear Snores On invites young children to practice early recognition skills by helping Bear search for various colors.

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