Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream: A Mathematical Story (Marilyn Burns Brainy Day Books)

I bought this book for my 6 year old home educated daughter, and she loved it. It explains the concept of multiplication in an easy-to-grasp way, and she spent ages with counters working out "quick" ways of counting. Its got lots of suggestions for further activities, so it has a bit of life beyond the initial reading. As a UK reader, my only reservation was that it needed a bit of translation (eg - adding an "s" to "math" and renaming multiplication "facts" as "tables"), but that didn't detract from its overall usefulness.

great book