Double Those Wheels by Nancy Raines Day

This book is about a monkey who is trying to deliver pizza as fast as he can to his customers. He starts on an unicycle but has trouble balancing so he doubles his wheels and now he is on a bike. He finds it too tiring riding the bike so he doubles the wheels to four and now he is riding in a car. It continues until number 64 and then he has no wheels and finishes delivering the pizza from a hot air balloon.

This is a good book for the younger grades because it can help them with math. Even if the student has yet to learn how to double numbers, he or she can try to guess because the entire book rhymes. For example, the book says, "Chug, chug, putt, putt, can't late! Double those wheels and you've got eight (8)." If I were reading this book to young children, I would read the text and let them say the number. This would help reinforce the numbers that are doubled.

Not only is this a great concept book, I also like the illustrations. Steve Haskamp did a great job of making every page colorful and there is not one white space on a page. The pictures correspond with the text so seeing the wheels can help students when they are trying to double the wheels.