Children's Books About Science and Math

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

3,484 members

29 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: llane, merrystar, cej1027, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Eric Carle

27,279 members

1,115 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: llane, merrystar, cej1027, al.vick, ahef1963

3

The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System

The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body

6,459 members

80 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, rcouzens313

4

The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth

6,222 members

91 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science

6,058 members

48 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, rcouzens313

6

Mummies Made in Egypt

by Aliki

1,271 members

12 reviews

4.1

4 Members: cej1027, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda, LilWilsMom

7

by John Fleischman

1,172 members

42 reviews

3.8

4 Members: inge87, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda, LilWilsMom

8

The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor

The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks

5,548 members

60 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, cej1027, rcouzens313

9

5,416 members

36 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963

10

The Way Things Work

The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive

3,280 members

27 reviews

4.2

3 Members: llane, themulhern, al.vick
Explanations: themulhern: https://www.librarything.com/work/63548/reviews/103004381

11

Sir Cumference and the Knights of the First Round Table

3,101 members

31 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: merrystar, cej1027, rcouzens313

12

My Visit to the Dinosaurs

2,346 members

71 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, LilWilsMom

13

Animals in Winter

by Henrietta Bancroft

2,058 members

18 reviews

3.8

3 Members: cej1027, al.vick, LilWilsMom

14

by Aliki

1,206 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda, LilWilsMom

15

The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos

by Deborah Heiligman

985 members

149 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: inge87, al.vick, LilWilsMom

16

Big Tracks, Little Tracks: Following Animal Prints

by Millicent E. Selsam

915 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: cej1027, al.vick, LilWilsMom

17

What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math Adventure

by Julie Ellis

899 members

21 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, LilWilsMom

18

Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas

by Cheryl Bardoe

796 members

30 reviews

4.2

3 Members: inge87, al.vick, LilWilsMom

19

Animals Do the Strangest Things

by Leonora Hornblow

666 members

6 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: cej1027, al.vick, LilWilsMom

20

What's smaller than a pygmy shrew?

by Robert E. Wells

665 members

13 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, al.vick, LilWilsMom

21

Birds Do the Strangest Things

by Leonora Hornblow

607 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: cej1027, al.vick, LilWilsMom

22

Flute's Journey: The Life of a Wood Thrush

by Lynne Cherry

516 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, LilWilsMom

23

Fish Do the Strangest Things

by Leonora Hornblow

432 members

1 review

½ 4.6

3 Members: cej1027, al.vick, LilWilsMom

24

Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers of Space

by Dominic Walliman

196 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: inge87, al.vick, LilWilsMom

25

Look Up!: Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer

by Robert Burleigh

139 members

9 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, LilWilsMom

26

The Blue Whale

by Jenni Desmond

138 members

8 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: inge87, al.vick, LilWilsMom

27

The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest

by Lynne Cherry

4,819 members

67 reviews

4.2

2 Members: al.vick, LilWilsMom

28

Snowflake Bentley

by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

3,738 members

158 reviews

4.2

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane

3,642 members

33 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

30

Flotsam

by David Wiesner

3,532 members

536 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

31

Handbook of Nature Study

by Anna Botsford Comstock

2,190 members

5 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: llane, cej1027

32

The New Way Things Work

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi

2,019 members

15 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten: A Book About Food Chains

1,923 members

43 reviews

4.2

2 Members: al.vick, LilWilsMom

34

by Pat Relf

1,850 members

13 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

35

Red-Eyed Tree Frog

by Joy Cowley

1,552 members

19 reviews

4

2 Members: al.vick, LilWilsMom

36

Find the Constellations

by H. A. Rey

1,492 members

7 reviews

½ 4.6

2 Members: merrystar, LilWilsMom

37

Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11

by Brian Floca

1,350 members

50 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

38

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland

Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens

1,236 members

18 reviews

4.2

2 Members: al.vick, LilWilsMom

39

by Patricia Lauber

1,117 members

21 reviews

3.9

2 Members: al.vick, LilWilsMom

40

The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body

The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter's Wonder

1,081 members

13 reviews

4.2

2 Members: themulhern, LilWilsMom
Explanations: themulhern: https://www.librarything.com/work/6051328/reviews/110243914

41

Apples, Apples, Apples

by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

934 members

4 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

42

by Mark Cassino

932 members

44 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, LilWilsMom

43

Dinosaurs (Pictureback)

by Peter Zallinger

651 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Island: A Story of the Galápagos

by Jason Chin

496 members

51 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: themulhern, al.vick
Explanations: themulhern: https://www.librarything.com/work/12855126/reviews/115370309

45

Reaching for the Moon

by Buzz Aldrin

439 members

18 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

46

A Black Hole Is Not a Hole

by Carolyn Cinami Decristofano

431 members

45 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

47

Falcons Nest on Skyscrapers

by Priscilla Belz Jenkins

257 members

3.8

2 Members: al.vick, LilWilsMom

48

How Animal Babies Stay Safe

by Mary Ann Fraser

241 members

4 reviews

4

2 Members: al.vick, LilWilsMom

49

Humpback Goes North

by Darice Bailer

233 members

1 review

4

2 Members: al.vick, LilWilsMom

50

Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor

by Robert Burleigh

230 members

12 reviews

4.1

2 Members: al.vick, LilWilsMom

51

Karl, Get Out of the Garden!: Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything

by Anita Sanchez

221 members

5 reviews

4.1

2 Members: al.vick, LilWilsMom

52

The Man Who Made Time Travel

by Kathryn Lasky

217 members

10 reviews

3.8

2 Members: al.vick, LilWilsMom

53

Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition Among Snow Leopards in Mongolia

by Sy Montgomery

212 members

8 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: al.vick, LilWilsMom

54

Toilet: How It Works

The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs

209 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: cej1027, themulhern
Explanations: themulhern: https://www.librarything.com/work/14199892/book/156136242

55

4,155 members

38 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

56

Castle

The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow

3,814 members

49 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

by Patricia Relf

3,364 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

58

The Magic School Bus Blows Its Top: A Book About Volcanoes

by Gail Herman

3,246 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

59

How a Seed Grows

by Helene J. Jordan

2,970 members

46 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

60

Pyramid

The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip

2,920 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship

2,472 members

32 reviews

4.2

Member: merrystar

62

by Isabella Hatkoff

2,436 members

58 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

63

The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses

Germs Make Me Sick! (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) (Reading Rainbow book)

2,304 members

46 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

64

by Melvin Berger

2,298 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

65

The Magic School Bus Hops Home: A Book About Animal Habitats

by Pat Relf

2,271 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

66

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

by Richard Dawkins

2,263 members

48 reviews

4

Member: themulhern
Explanations: themulhern: https://www.librarything.com/work/11372651/reviews/86279792

67

The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie: A Book About Germs

by Beth Nadler

2,076 members

19 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

68

Actual Size

by Steve Jenkins

2,075 members

120 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: cej1027

69

The Magic School Bus in the Haunted Museum: A Book About Sound

by Linda Beech

2,013 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

70

The Burgess Bird Book for Children

by Thornton W. Burgess

2,005 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: cej1027

71

The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake: A Book About Kitchen Chemistry

by Linda Beech

1,994 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

72

The Bee Tree

by Patricia Polacco

1,897 members

41 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027

73

The Magic School Bus: Gets Ants in Its Pants: A Book About Ants

by Linda Ward Beech

1,856 members

7 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

74

A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder

by Walter Wick

1,841 members

59 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: cej1027

75

The Magic School Bus Going Batty: A Book About Bats

by Nancy E. Krulik

1,792 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

76

Over and Under the Snow

by Kate Messner

1,788 members

49 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

The Magic School Bus Wet All Over: A Book About the Water Cycle

by Pat Relf

1,765 members

12 reviews

4.2

Member: merrystar

78

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt

by Kate Messner

1,621 members

15 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

The Burgess Animal Book for Children

by Thornton W. Burgess

1,575 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

80

Greg's Microscope

by Millicent E. Selsam

1,572 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

81

Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens

The Magic School Bus Ups and Downs: A Book About Floating and Sinking

1,568 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

82

by Jane B. Mason

1,544 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: merrystar

83

The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow: A Book About Color

by George Bloom

1,484 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

84

First the Egg

by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

1,433 members

119 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

85

The Magic School Bus Lost in the Snow

Ladybugs: Red, Fiery, and Bright

1,349 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: merrystar

86

by Mia Posada

1,341 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

87

Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?

by Margaret Frith

1,331 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

88

Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone