March 2025 Book Club Review

Sharing Our Favorites: Children’s Books on Math is Everywhere!

Our Children’s Book Club, which met on Zoom on March 15th, was moderated by Monica Moran and attendees shared various books pertaining to the concept of “Math is Everywhere!” Here are some titles that were shared during the meeting as well as a link to the recorded book club meeting (use the Passcode Vb7UFr2&). Enjoy!

Illustrated book cover of a red house seen from outside at night. Through a lighted window on the second floor, we can see a child reading a secret note.
Illustrated book cover of a young girl standing on a stool in front of a worksheet of astronomy equations. She wears a yellow and orange plaid skirt and orange sweater with a collared white shirt peaking out of the sweater.
Charcoal illustrated book cover of a young black boy, squatting down counting out something into a tray.
  • Luna’s Yum Yum Dim Sum by Natasha Yim (Author),  Violet Kim (Illustrator)
  • Pitter Pattern by Joyce Hesselberth (Author and illustrator)
  • Everybody Counts: A Counting Story from 0 to 7.5 Billion by Kristin Roskifte (Author and illustrator)
  • Dumpling Days by Grace Lin (Author)
  • City Shapes by Diana Murray (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
  • The Secret Birthday Message by Eric Carle (Author and illustrator )
  • Grey Rabbit’s Odd One Out by Alan Baker (Author)
  • Moja Means One by Muriel Feelings (Author) and Tom Feelings (Illustrator)
  • Over in the Meadow by Olive A. Wadsworth (Author), Ezra Jack Keats (Illustrator)
  • Trouble in the Hair Salon by Tanya Wright (Author), a P.E.A.C.E. Book Club attendees, Ashley Evans (Illustrator)
  • The Happiness of a Star by Heather Rose  (Author),  Charbak Dipta (Illustrator)
  • What in the World? Numbers in Nature by Nancy Raines Day  (Author), Kurt Cyrus (Illustrator)
  • Counting on Katherine by Helaine Becker (Author), Dow Phumiruk  (Illustrator)

The following titles are part of the Storytelling Math Series that distributes picture books and board books in English and Spanish:

  • Again, Essie? – ¡Essie! ¿Otra Vez? by Jenny Lacika (Author), Teresa Martinez (Illustrator)
  • Up to My Knees / Hasta Las Rodillas by Grace Lin (Author and illustrator)
  • The Animals Would Not Sleep! / Los Animales No Se Dormian by Sarah Levine (Author), Marta Alvarez Miguens (Illustrator)
  • Yumbo Gumbo / El Gumbo Más Delicioso by Keila V. Dawson (Author), Katie Crumpton (Illustrator), Carlos E. Calvo (Translator)
Illustrated book cover of a boy and girl in the kitchen. The girl lifts the lid of a steaming pot of gumbo while the boy peers in, showing it to the pet chicken in his hands.
Illustrated book cover of a young gift tucked into bed with a variety of stuffed animals dancing and jumping all over her room.

Book list provided by Fran Roznowski

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