New Releases by Stuart J Murphy

You can start with one little hamster and keep counting past six slinky fish, eight favorite playmates, and more -- all the way up to ten cuddly teddy bears. With buddies, counting is fun!

Scream down the Dare-Devil Coaster and whirl around in the Twin Spin cars! Join in the carnival fun as 11 friends divide up to fit on the 2-to-a-seat roller coaster and the 4-to-a-cup teacups ride. Making new friends and practicing predivision skills have never been so exciting!

Scream down the Dare-Devil Coaster and whirl around in the Twin Spin cars. Join in the carnival fun as 11 friends divide up to fit on the two-to-a-seat roller coaster and the four-to-a-cup teacups ride. Predivision skills have never been so exciting. Full color.

Sleepyheads will wish they had Sammie the dog to hurry them along in their morning routines. Read along as Sammie builds colorful time lines to keep track of passing time -- from a goodmorning snuggle to an off-to-school hug.

It’s Kangaroo’s birthday, but no one will play with him: not the emu, the platypuses, the koalas, or even the dingos. They all have too many things to do. What exactly are they doing? They’re using multiplication to figure out just how many things they have to do to plan a big surprise for Kangaroo! Best Children’s Science Books 1997 (Science Books and Films)

Does a polka-dotted sock match a striped sock? Young children will learn about matching, an important early math skill, as a lonely striped sock searches the house for its mate. They will may even be inspired to practice this skill in their own sock drawers! Best Children''s Science Books 1997 (Science Books and Films)

Splitting things in half may seem like an easy thing to do, but when two siblings and a pizza are involved, things can get messy. Children learn about fractions at school but fractions are also an important part of everyday life outside the classroom.In this riotous book, Stuart J. Murphy and G. Brian Karas introduce the simplest of fractions, 1/2.

Frog friends, Matty and Moe, are off with a "Ready, Set, Hop!" They both made it to the rock, but who''s in the lead? If Matty hopped 5 hops and Moe hopped 2 more hops than Matty, then the score is 5 to 7. But then they''re off again. Any child who can add or subtract can build a simple equation, and Matty and Moe make it fun. As readers count along with Stuart J. Murphy and Jon Buller they will sharpen their problem solving skills and find out which frog is the better hopper.

Stuart J. Murphy travels all over the United States talking to thousands of kids. And you’ll never believe what they talk about: math! Stuart shows kids that they use math every day—to share a pizza, spend their allowance, and even sort socks. Stuart writes funny stories about math—and if you read his books, you’ll start to see the fun in math, too.