Merry Measuring
Children's Literature Connections

Title Author ISBN Level Comments
Counting Time Sweeney, Joan 0-439-22129-3 Primary Explains time from seconds to days; years, decades, centuries and millennium
Hershey's Milk Chocolate Weights and Measures Pallotta, Jerry 0-439-38877-5 Elementary Uses candies to show length, distance, weight, and volume in standard and metric
How Big is a Foot? Myller, Rolf 0-440-80332-2 Elementary The king figures out what size a bed should be and standardizes measurement
If You Hopped Like a Frog Schwartz, David 0-590-09860-8 Elementary Fun animal facts; ie If you ate like a shrew, you'd eat 720 hamburgers a day
Inch by Inch Lionni, Leo 0-590-47991-1 Primary An inchworm convinces birds not to eat him by measuring things
Math Counts: Capacity Pluckrose, Henry 0-516-45451-X Primary Conceptual text, photos, and questions; nonstandard and standard units
Math Counts: Length Pluckrose, Henry 0-516-45453-6 Primary Measuring length and height in km, meters, cm, mm, yards, feet, and inches
Math Counts: Time Pluckrose, Henry 0-516-45459-5 Primary Photos and text introduce seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years
Math Counts: Weight Pluckrose, Henry 0-516-45460-9 Primary Explores estimating and weighing in grams, ounces, kilograms, and pounds
Measuring Penny Leedy, Loreen 0-439-08328-1 Elementary A girl measures her dog's length and weight; volume of waterbowl; time spent, etc.
The 100 Pound Problem Dussling, Jennifer 0-439-33223-0 Primary A boy must figure out the weight of his dog and his fishing gear using a seesaw
The Biggest Fish Keenan, Sheila 0-590-26600-4 Primary The people of Littletown compare and measure objects in nonstandard units
The Fattest, Tallest, Biggest Snowman Ever Ling, Bettina 0-590-97284-7 Primary Children compare and measure objects in nonstandard units
What is Volume? Trumbauer, Lisa 0-516-23621-0 Primary Explores equivalencies (cups, pints, quarts, gallons) of liquids and solids