2 great series of books, one focusing on science and the other on maths; that I would strongly recommend to any mommies. Both series comes with different levels aim at kids at different ages. I finished MathStart Level 1 Series with 3+ gal S, who enjoyed the stories while learning about Maths. Through the stories, she learnt about sets, doubling, simple subtracting, mutiplication by factor of 10, etc. Among her favourites are 'A House for Birdie' which teaches capacity through the search for a house of the right size for Birdies, with all her feathered friends, and 'Seaweed Soup' which teaches the concept of sets, through Turtle setting different sets of bowl, cup, spoon and napkins for his friends. 
For the Let's Read and Find Out About Science, my gal does them selectively regardless of the levels, based on what she's interested in, like penguins, dinosuars, etc. The reading session can be extremely fun, as we got to do the penguins' walk, the tobogganing i.e. the belly sliding, and learn about how papa penguin keep baby penguin warms while mama goes out to hunt for food.Crazy Mama L
You can find out a bit more about both series from these 2 websites, or simply drop us a post or email.
Let's Read and Find Out About ScienceMathStartTitles Listing
MathStart Level 13 LITTLE FIREFIGHTERS
BEEP BEEP, VROOM VROOM
BEST BUG PARADE
BUG DANCE
CIRCUS SHAPES
DOUBLE THE DUCKS
EVERY BUDDY COUNTS
THE GREATEST GYMNAST OF ALL
HENRY THE FOURTH
A HOUSE FOR BIRDIE
IT'S ABOUT TIME!
JACK THE BUILDER
JUST ENOUGH CARROTS
LEAPING LIZARDS
MIGHTY MADDIE
MISSING MITTENS
MONSTER MUSICAL CHAIRS
ONE…TWO…THREE…Sassafras!
PAIR OF SOCKS
RABBIT'S PAJAMA PARTY
SEAWEED SOUP
MathStart Level 2100 DAYS OF COOL
ANIMAL ON BOARDS
THE BEST VACATION EVER
BIGGER, BETTER, BEST
CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE & THE SPACE SHAPES
COYOTES ALL AROUND
ELEVATOR MAGIC
A FAIR BEAR SHARE
GET UP AND GO
GIVE ME HALF!
LET'S FLY A KITE
MALL MANIA
MORE OR LESS
PEPPER'S JOURNAL: A KITTEN'S FIRST YEAR
PROBABLY PISTACHIO
RACING AROUND
SAME OLD HOUSE
SPUNKY MONKEYS ON PARADE
THE SUNDAE SCOOP
SUPER SAND CASTLE
TALLY O'MALLEY
MathStart Level 3BETCHA!
DAVE'S DOWN-TO-EARTH ROCK
DINOSAUR DEALS
DIVIDE AND RIDE
EARTH DAY-HOORAY!
GAME TIME!
GRIZZLY GAZETTE
HAMSTER CHAMPS
JUMP, KANGAROO, JUMP!
LEMONADE FOR SALE
LESS THAN ZERO
PENNY POT
POLLY'S PEN PAL
READY, SET, HOP!
RODEO TIME
ROOM FOR RIPLEY
SAFARI PARK
SHARK SWIMATHON
SLUGGER' CAR WASH
TOO MANY KANGAROO THINGS TO DO
TREASURE MAP
Lets Read and Find Out About Science Level 1Air Is All Around You
Animals in Winter
Baby Whales Drink Milk
Big dipper, The
Big Tracks, Little Tracks
Bugs Are Insects
Dinosaurs Big and Small
Ducks Don't Get Wet
Fireflies in the Night
From Caterpillar to Butterfly
From Seed to Pumpkin
From Tadpole to Frog
How a Seed Grows
How Animal Babies Stay Safe
How Many Teeth?
I'm Growing!
Is There Life in Outer Space?
My Feet
My Five Senses
My Hands
A Nest Full of Eggs
Sleep Is for Everyone
Snow Is Falling
Starfish
A Tree Is a Plant
What Lives in a Shell?
What's Alive?
What's It Like to Be a Fish?
Where Are the Night Animals?
Where Do Chicks Come From?
Lets Read and Find Out About Science Level 2Almost Gone The World's Rarest Animals
Ant Cities
Archaeologists Dig for Clues
Be a Friend to Trees
Chirping Crickets
Corn Is Maize
Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?
Digging Up Dinosaurs
Dinosaur Bones
Dinosaur Tracks
Dinosaurs Are Different
Dolphin Talk
Earthquakes
Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean
Fossils Tell of Long Ago
How Do Apples Grow?
How Do Birds Find Their Way?
How Mountains Are Made
Let's Go Rock Collecting
Look Out for Turtles!
Milk from Cow to Carton
My Visit to the Dinosaurs
Octopus Is Amazing, An
Oil Spill!
Penguin Chick
Snakes are hunters
Spinning Spiders
Volcanoes
What Happened to the Dinosaurs?
Who Eats What?
Who Lives in an Alligator Hole?
Why Do Leaves Change Color?
Why Frogs Are Wet
Wiggling Worms at Work
You're Aboard Spaceship Earth
Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats
Day Light, Night Light
Down Comes the Rain
Drop of Blood, A
Energy Makes Things Happen
Feel the Wind
Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll
Floating in Space
Forces Make Things Move
Germs Make Me Sick!
Gravity Is a Mystery
Hear Your Heart
How People Learned to Fly
International Space Station, The
Mission to Mars
The moon Seems to Change
The planets in our solar system
The skeleton Inside You
The sky Is Full of Stars
The Sun
Sunshine Makes the Seasons
Switch On, Switch Off
Tornado Alert
What Color Is Camouflage?
What Happens to a Hamburger?
What Is the World Made Of?
What Makes Day and Night?
What the moon is like
Why Are the Ice Caps Melting?
Why I Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup, & Yawn
Your Skin and Mine
Eric Carle's is one of her (and mama's too) favourite authors. 'Head to Toe' is the book that she proudly proclaimed that she could "read" all by herself. It is always amazing how kids can seemed to remember the sequence of the book after reading it just once. This is an interesting book, as S had fun doing all the actions while reading the book. She enjoyed ALL of her Eric Carle's books, and simply loved the boardbooks editions, with the cutouts, sounds and foldouts. 'Papa, please get the moon for me', 'The Very Clicky Beetle', 'The Very Hungry Catapillar', 'The Secret Birthday Message' are some of S's favourites reads.
Usborne, I think every mommy and daddy out there would had heard of the famous Usborne books. Usborne Phonics Readers were S's all time favourite for quite a while. We had read them countless times, over and over again. Now, she had moved on to the Usborne Reading Programme doing the First Reading Level 3 and 4, and Young Reader Series One. S loved the maps drawn at the front of the First Reading Level 3 books, influence of Dora the Explorer I guess..
MathStart is another of S's favourite series. It was fun as math concepts like addition, subtractions, multiplication, sets, capacity, etc are introduced through interesting stories
