Geometry: Children's Literature Connections

Title Author ISBN Level Comments
A Cloak for the Dreamer Friedman, Aileen 0-590-99698-3 Elementary A tailor's sons create three cloaks by combining and dividing shapes
Math Counts: Pattern Pluckrose, Henry 0-516-45455-2 Primary Readers look for patterns in photographs of nature and familiar objects
Math Counts: Shape Pluckrose, Henry 0-516-45456-0 Primary Readers look for squares, circles, rectangles and triangles in photographs
Silly Story of Goldie Locks and the Three Squares Maccarone, Grace 0-590-54344-X Primary Humorous story featuring triangles, rectangles, squares, pentagons, circles
Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi Neuschwander, Cindy 0-439-18031-7 Elementary Radius figures out that the outside edge of a pie is 3 1/7 times the diameter
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table Neuschwander, Cindy 0-590-00215-5 Elementary Lady Di of Ameter and her son Radius help the Knights of the Round Table
The Greedy Triangle Burns, Marilyn 0-590-48992-5 Primary A shapeshifter changes a triangle over and over by adding sides and angles
Three Pigs, One Wolf & Seven Magic Shapes Maccarone, Grace 0-590-30857-2 Primary Characters use tangrams to create a duck, cat, rabbit, candle, swan, and house