New Releases by Barbara Barbieri McGrath

Count five fast ostriches as they flee—and hide—from a lurking lion in this playful, rhyming twist on an early concepts counting book! Five ostriches run, stomp, and hide from a sneaky lion. . . . But a surprise ending reveals that the lion is only trying to play hide-and-seek! The back of the book includes five fun facts about ostriches and an idea for a game that will inspire your little readers to get moving, too.

Five little penguins are content in the cold--until they spot a menacing mammal! With a rhyming narrative that counts to five, adorable penguins are soaring--or flying--through the sea, trying to elude a lurking creature. But as young readers of this charming tale will discover, a friendly seal is only looking to play a game of tag.

Looking for a board book that celebrates birthdays? Look no further! Birthday Counting is the perfect choice for baby’s birthday party! This festive board book introduces counting in reverse from six to one, with all the typical trappings of a birthday fete, including cakes, balloons, and presents. This book is part of the First Celebrations series, which also includes Easter Counting, Halloween Colors, Vanlentine's Shapes, Christmas Colors & Counting, and Thanksgiving Counting! Round out the series with this new fun and colorful book about the most important day of the year — your birthday!

Strike up the band! This upbeat and cheerful celebration for baby’s first patriotic holidays introduces a variety of colors as readers encounter Uncle Sam, parade floats, and the American flag.

Introduce your littlest readers to the joys of Easter by counting colorful eggs, fluffy bunnies, and springtime flowers. Count from one to five on Baby’s first Easter egg hunt! With fuzzy ducklings, Easter bonnets, and bouquets of bright daffodils Easter Counting is the perfect introduction to a variety of colors, shapes, and seasonal treats. How many eggs will you find? Welcome spring, and celebrate the holiday with this colorful counting board book that is a perfect fit for Baby's first Easter basket!

This unique alternative to stuffed animals and sweets makes baby’s first Valentine’s Day all about shapes, including Valentine favorites like hearts, balloons, and flowers.

A merry and bright option for baby’s first Christmas introduces colors with seasonal favorites such as elves and the Christmas tree. Practice basic non-sequential counting and color recognition with festive flair! Simple, clear text is perfect for little eyes, and sturdy construction will stand up to even the most enthusiastic little hands. The fun die-cut shape and bright illustrations make this the perfect baby-shower and first-Christmas gift. Little fingers will have endless fun in this Christmas wonderland.

A colorful choice for the littlest trick-or-treaters. This bright and fun selection for baby's first Halloween introduces the youngest of readers to a variety of colors as they encounter seasonal staples like pumpkins, ghosts, and trick-or-treating. Some costumes are spooky; some are silly; all are full of color! Ideal for read-alouds, a cute die-cut shape and bright illustrations make this introduction to the sights of Halloween a perfect gift for baby showers, spooky seasonal parties, and other celebrations.

Introduce the youngest dinner guests to the joys of Thanksgiving and counting! Count from one to ten on Baby’s first Thanksgiving. Made more special when you introduce the youngest of readers to a variety of colors as they experience setting the table, passing the peas, and a walk after dinner. Celebrate the holiday with this colorful, delightful board book that will stimulate little brains and introduce basic counting skills. Everyone loves Thanksgiving and now little ones will be even more excited when they can read about Thanksgiving fun!

One less teddy leaves how many? Subtraction is simple when big bears count, sort, and take away tiny teddies. The familiar bear counters will appeal to young readers just learning basic math concepts. Part of the McGrath Math series perfect to match with the popular teddy bear manipulatives that show how much fun math can be. Praise for Teddy Bear Math: "Young readers should find it easy yet gratifying to count the chunky, colorful bears." —Publishers Weekly "[A] solid introduction to addition." —School Library Journal

Children dress up in brightly colored costumes to go trick-or-treating on Halloween night.

Teddy Bears are on an addition mission! Math, counting, sorting and adding for young children. Easy, fun, and educational. Visual learners can watch the teddies add more and more. And kinetic learners can copy the action with their own teddy bear manipulatives. Catchy speech bubbles accompany lively verse as teddies add single-digit and double-digit numbers from one to fifty. Playful rhymes and hands-on interaction make this book perfect for use with bear counters and other classroom manipulatives.

A playful introduction to color patterns invites children to sort teddy bears by color and arrange them into patterns of two colors, three colors and more until a bear-pattern marches across the page, revealing to readers how to use patterns to skip count, add and multiply.

Poor little gray bunny. He’s the only one that does any work around the barn. From weaving the baskets to baking the cupcakes to caring for the flowers, the little gray bunny does it all. He gets no help from the turtle, who likes to hide all day long. The duck won’t leave the tub, pool, or wherever there is water. And forget about the lamb—all she wants to do is eat hay! When the little gray bunny finds a big pile of eggs ready for dyeing and hiding, his lazy friends refuse to help. But when it comes time for the Easter egg hunt, the turtle, duck, and lamb can’t wait to join in and get a prize. But the little gray bunny has a trick up his sleeve—and the prize is not what his friends expect. This retelling of "The Little Red Hen" is a wonderful companion to Barbara Barbieri McGrath’s earlier books, THE LITTLE RED ELF and THE LITTLE GREEN WITCH. Violet Kim’s bright and kid-friendly illustrations add to the humor of this timeless and classic story.

This rhyming text using images of common classroom bear manipulatives to teach counting and colors.

Step up to the plate with this counting book about America's favorite pastime. THE BASEBALL COUNTING BOOK is spring training for little sluggers. The count is zero to zero when the ump calls, "Play ball!" Nine innings later we've counted balls, strikes, players, fans, and more, all the way to twenty. No one strikes out with these fun rhymes. Little leaguers will find themselves counting their way through practice and pointing out all the new things they've learned about this great game when they watch the pro's on TV or at the parks. Early readers will hit a home run with this charming counting book.

The bears are back in this squel to the popular "Teddy Bear Counthing." This time they take math to the next level, exploring graphing, estimation, addition, subtraction, mutiplication, division, and ordinal numbers. Playful rhymes and hands-on interaction make this book perfect for use with bear counters and other classroom manipulatives.

Teddy bears count from one to twelve, count by sets, name their colors, and make three primary shapes--before counting back down to zero.

In this version of "The little red hen" set at the North Pole, a penguin and a hare refuse to help an elf plant, grow, and decorate an evergreen tree but nevertheless expect to open the presents found under its branches on Christmas Day.

The little green witch's three friends are too lazy to help her tend the pumpkin seeds she has planted, but when they all want to eat the pumpkin pie that she makes, the witch exacts her revenge.

Use M&M's chocolate candies as a learning tool to learn subtraction.

Rhyming text and illustrations use candy to teach mathematical skills, including review of counting and estimation and single and double digit addition.

Uses M & M colored candies to reinforce counting and addition.

An introduction to counting using the history, rules, and fun facts about soccer, the world's most popular game.

Explains how to count up to 100 pieces of M&M candy by ones, twos, fives, and tens.

Emergent readers can use Necco Sweethearts to practice language arts skills in a very tasty way. Full color.

M & Ms participate in a patriotic parade.

Uses "M & M's" Chocolate Candies to introduce counting, addition, subtraction, sets, colors, and shapes.

Children can join in the Fourth of July parade by filling in the missing pieces in each illustration with colorful "M&M'S" "RM" Chocolate Candies. Then, they can help prepare the Thanksgiving feast. Learn to count and match colors with these interactive board books.

Rhyming text describes how to sort M & M's to make various color patterns.