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Baby Goes to Market

By Atinuke, Angela Brooksbank

Count Me in: A Parade of Mexican Folk Art Numbers in English and Spanish

By Cynthia Weill, The Aguilar Sisters (Illustrator)

Counting Up the Olive Tree

By Golbarg Bashi and Nabi H. Ali (Illustrator)

Dumpling Day

By Meera Sriram and Inés de Antuñano (Illustrator)

Feast for 10

By Cathryn Falwell

It's Diwali!

By Kabir Sehgal, Surishtha Sehgal, and Archana Sreenivasan (Illustrator)

Just a Minute!: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book *

By Yuyi Morales

Kiss By Kiss/Ocètôwina: A Counting Book For Families*

By Richard Van Camp

Little Skeletons / Esqueletitos: Countdown to Midnight *

By Susie Jaramillo

One Duck Stuck: A Mucky Ducky Counting Book

By Phyllis Root, Jane Chapman (Illustrator)

One Sun and Countless Stars: A Muslim Book of Numbers

By Hena Khan and Mehrdokht Amini (Illustrator)

Ten, Nine, Eight Board Book

By Molly Bang, Molly Bang (Illustrator)

We All Count: A Book of Cree Numbers

By Julie Flett

10 Gulab Jamuns: Counting with an Indian Sweet Treat

By Sandhya Acharya, Vanessa Alexandre

A Beautiful House for Birds

By Grace Lin

Bracelets for Bina's Brothers

By Rajani Larocca and Chaaya Prabhat (Illustrator)

Circle! Sphere!

By Grace Lin

Friends of Numbers

By Priya Narayanan and Satwik Gade (Illustrator)

The Last Marshmallow

By Grace Lin

My Rows and Piles of Coins

By Tololwa M. Mollel

One

By Kathryn Otoshi

One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale

By Demi 

Seven Golden Rings: A Tale of Music and Math

By Rajani Larocca and Archana Sreenivasan (Illustrator)

Sometimes We Do *

Omowale Moses

Up to My Knees!

By Grace Lin

Usha and the Big Digger

By Amitha Jagannath Knight and Sandhya Prabhat (Illustrator)

What Will Fit?

By Grace Lin

Where Are the Eggs?

By Grace Lin

Zero

By Kathryn Otoshi

Choosing to See: A Framework for Equity in the Math Classroom

By Pamela Seda and Kyndall Brown

Critical Race Theory in Mathematics Education

Edited by Julius Davis and Christopher Jett

Early Elementary Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice

By Courtney Koestler, Jennifer Ward, Maria del Rosario Zavala, and Tonya Gau Bartell

The Math Myth: And Other Stem Delusions

By Andrew Hacker

Middle School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice

By Basil M. Conway IV, Lateefah Id-Deen, Mary Candace Raygoza, Amanda Ruiz, John W. Staley, and Eva Thanheiser

Radical Equations: Bring the Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement to America's Schools

By Robert Moses and Charles E. Cobb

Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice

By Eric Gutstein

Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers

Edited by Eric (Rico) Gutstein and Bob Peterson

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