The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice
2026 Mathical Book Prize Award Winner for Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10
Books for Grades 3–5
9 Kilometers
2026 Mathical Book Prize Honor Book for Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10
Mr. Pei’s Perfect Shapes
2026 Mathical Book Prize Honor Book for Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10
Who Was Katherine Johnson?
2026 Mathical Book Prize Honor Book for Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10
Zero! The Number That Almost Wasn’t
2026 Mathical Book Prize Honor Book for Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10
Close Up and Far Out
This dual picture book biography of Galileo Galilei and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek makes you look at their lives in new ways by telling their stories in parallel. Both revolutionized science by making lenses that revealed wonders people had never seen before, Galileo with telescopes, and Antonie with microscopes. Both needed mathematics and precision to perfect …
Six Dots
The Mathical Committee loves Six Dots and feels this biographical story told from the perspective of the young inventor Louis Braille, will likely inspire children to recognize their own limitless potential. The committee notes that persistence, spatial reasoning, and tactile diagrams are incorporated in the story. The committee appreciates that the book showcases a real-life …
How Do You Turn Data into Drawings?
A picture book introduction to statistics, this book gives kids the basics of gathering and summarizing data and drawing conclusions from it. Illustrated with cartoon situations and helpful charts, each spread explains a concept with examples. The section on graphs includes various types, along with examples of misleading graphs, so they know what to watch …