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Children's Books About Science and Math

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Based on tag: children's science
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1

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

20,762 members

1,032 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: merrystar, cej1027, al.vick

2

Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction

by David Macaulay

2,689 members

25 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, cej1027, al.vick

3

The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body

4,427 members

80 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

4

The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System

4,325 members

69 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

5

The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth

4,103 members

44 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

6

The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor

3,782 members

51 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

7

The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks

3,669 members

36 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

8

by David Wiesner

3,053 members

512 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

9

The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane

2,483 members

33 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

10

The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive

2,131 members

29 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

11

Animals in Winter

by Henrietta Bancroft

1,320 members

18 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, al.vick

12

Mummies Made in Egypt (Reading Rainbow Books)

976 members

10 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, al.vick

13

Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science

by John Fleischman

878 members

37 reviews

3.8

2 Members: inge87, al.vick

14

Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11

835 members

46 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

15

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

by Deborah Heiligman

706 members

140 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: inge87, al.vick

16

Apples, Apples, Apples

by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

621 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

17

Big Tracks, Little Tracks

by Millicent E. Selsam

613 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: cej1027, al.vick

18

Animals Do the Strangest Things

by Leonora Hornblow

507 members

6 reviews

½ 4.6

2 Members: cej1027, al.vick

19

Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas

by Cheryl Bardoe

504 members

27 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: inge87, al.vick

20

What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew? (Wells of Knowledge Science Series)

by Robert E. Wells

489 members

13 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, al.vick

21

Birds Do the Strangest Things

by Leonora Hornblow

455 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: cej1027, al.vick

22

Flute's Journey: The Life of a Wood Thrush

by Lynne Cherry

380 members

1 review

½ 3.6

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

23

Fish Do the Strangest Things

by Leonora Hornblow

327 members

2 reviews

½ 4.7

2 Members: cej1027, al.vick

24

Reaching for the Moon

327 members

16 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

25

A Black Hole Is Not a Hole

by Carolyn Cinami Decristofano

320 members

45 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

26

Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers of Space

by Dominic Walliman

136 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: inge87, al.vick

27

by Jenni Desmond

105 members

8 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: inge87, al.vick

28

Look Up!: Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer

by Robert Burleigh

104 members

8 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

29

The Great Kapok Tree

by Lynne Cherry

3,218 members

62 reviews

4.2

Member: al.vick

30

The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs

2,899 members

36 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

31

The Way Things Work

by David Macaulay

2,737 members

25 reviews

4.2

Member: al.vick

32

Snowflake Bentley

by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

2,638 members

145 reviews

4.2

Member: al.vick

33

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

by Patricia Relf

2,250 members

20 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

34

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

2,117 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

35

How a Seed Grows (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)

by Helene J. Jordan

2,006 members

43 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

36

Sir Cumference and the First Round Table : A Math Adventure

by Cindy Neuschwander

1,726 members

68 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

37

Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship

by Isabella Hatkoff

1,714 members

56 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

38

Handbook of Nature Study

by Anna Botsford Comstock

1,686 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: cej1027

39

The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip

1,664 members

31 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: merrystar

40

The New Way Things Work

by David Macaulay

1,651 members

14 reviews

4.2

Member: merrystar

41

Germs Make Me Sick!

by Melvin Berger

1,633 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

42

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

1,593 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

43

The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses

1,580 members

43 reviews

4.2

Member: merrystar

44

by Steve Jenkins

1,520 members

114 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: cej1027

45

The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie: A Book About Germs

1,505 members

19 reviews

4.2

Member: merrystar

46

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

1,481 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

47

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

1,444 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

48

by Patricia Polacco

1,358 members

36 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027

49

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi : A Math Adventure

by Cindy Neuschwander

1,334 members

42 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

50

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

1,334 members

11 reviews

4.2

Member: merrystar

51

The Magic School Bus: Wet All Over

1,312 members

11 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

52

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

by Linda Ward Beech

1,307 members

5 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

53

A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder

1,299 members

57 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: cej1027

54

The Magic School Bus Going Batty: A Book About Bats

by Nancy E. Krulik

1,264 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

55

The Burgess Bird Book for Children

by Thornton W. Burgess

1,246 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: cej1027

56

Greg's Microscope

by Millicent E. Selsam

1,171 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

57

by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

1,168 members

117 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

58

Find the Constellations

1,125 members

5 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: merrystar

59

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

by Jane B. Mason

1,113 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: merrystar

60

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

by George Bloom

1,054 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

61

Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens: A Math Adventure

by Cindy Neuschwander

1,032 members

10 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: al.vick

62

The Burgess Animal Book for Children

by Thornton W. Burgess

1,030 members

4.1

Member: cej1027

63

Red-Eyed Tree Frog

1,021 members

20 reviews

4

Member: al.vick

64

Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone

by Cindy Neuschwander

937 members

17 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

65

The Magic School Bus in the Arctic: A Book About Heat

by Anne Schreiber

921 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: merrystar

66

Dolphin Adventure: A True Story

by Wayne Grover

911 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

67

The Magic School Bus Lost in the Snow

902 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: merrystar

68

Ladybugs: Red, Fiery, and Bright

899 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

69

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland : A Math Adventure

by Cindy Neuschwander

892 members

17 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

70

My Visit to the Dinosaurs

889 members

12 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: al.vick

71

Usborne Beginners: Under the Sea

by Fiona Patchett

876 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027

72

The Magic School Bus: Arctic Adventure

813 members

6 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: merrystar

73

The Magic School Bus in the Bat Cave

by Jeanette Lane

809 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

74

Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens

by Patricia Lauber

808 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

75

Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?

by Margaret Frith

784 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

76

The Magic School Bus Gets Cold Feet: A Book About Hot-and Cold-blooded Animals

711 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

77

Bat Loves the Night

by Nicola Davies

690 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: al.vick

78

The Magic School Bus Spins a Web: A Book About Spiders

681 members

3 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

79

Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 1

by Wendy Kramer

671 members

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

80

What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math Adventure

656 members

20 reviews

4.2

Member: merrystar

81

Missing Mittens

by Stuart J. Murphy

653 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: cej1027

82

Who Was Marie Curie?

652 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

83

The Brain: Our Nervous System

by Seymour Simon

628 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: al.vick

84

The Best Bug Parade (MathStart 1)

by Stuart J. Murphy

619 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: cej1027

85

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

by Mark Cassino

600 members

44 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

86

The Magic School Bus Gets Caught in a Web

by Jeanette Lane

594 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

87

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin

by Julia Finley Mosca

592 members

72 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: al.vick

88

Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter : A Math Adventure

by Cindy Neuschwander

588 members

11 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: al.vick

89

The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature

by Stan Berenstain

574 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

90

574 members

80 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

91

The Magic School Bus Sleeps for the Winter

556 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: merrystar

92

Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 2

by Julia McNair Wright

555 members

½ 3.5

Member: cej1027

93

Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau

by Jennifer Berne

548 members

45 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

94

Almost Gone: The World's Rarest Animals

by Steve Jenkins

529 members

24 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: al.vick

95

The Magic School Bus Shows and Tells: A Book About Archaeology

by Jackie Posner

527 members

4 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

96

What the Moon Is Like

by Franklyn M. Branley

522 members

9 reviews

4

Member: al.vick

97

The Glow-in-the-Dark Night Sky Book

by Clint Hatchett

515 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: al.vick

98

Dinosaurs (Pictureback)

by Peter Zallinger

515 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: al.vick

99

Ruth Heller's How to Hide a Butterfly, and Other Insects

510 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: al.vick

100

Bones: Our Skeletal System

by Seymour Simon

486 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: al.vick

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December 2013
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