Wilburne et al. (mathematics education, education, and reading and children's literature, Penn State Harrisburg) show how prospective and current early childhood educators can use story time to teach math to pre-kindergarten through third grade students. They explain how using storybooks can help children contextualize and engage with math by placing it in a meaningful context, and provide examples of books that can promote problem solving skills. They describe the importance of teaching math beyond skills, computation, and procedures and emphasizing mathematical thinking, reasoning, and problem solving; how key concepts from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics curriculum can be emphasized in storybooks; how to select and find books; the experiences of teachers in their workshops; and three approaches: emphasizing higher level thinking questions; using the plot, characters, objects, time frame, setting, and theme of a book to set the context for problems; and an approach where teachers identify standards they want to address with problems constructed through books. Lessons, teacher scripts, sample questions and classroom discourse are provided for each grade. The final chapter discusses how to use other types of books to teach math. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)