2024 Mathical Winners Announced
Explore the 2024 award-winning books for ages 2-18, and find flyers and more to share with your community!
News & Updates
Mathical 2024 Media Kit
Find 2024 Mathical Book List flyers to share with your school or community, book cover images of all winners, and more.
Honoring Robie Harris (1940-2024)
We at Mathical are saddened by the news of the death of Mathical author Robie Harris on January 6, 2024. We appreciated her warm and boisterous presence at the National Math Festival in Washington, DC in 2019, where she sat on the carpeted floor of the Mathical Reading Room and read books aloud to children. …
Register for the 2024 Mathical Award Announcement On Wed. February 21 (Online)
Join the Mathical Book Prize on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 from 12-1pm U.S. Eastern / 9-10am U.S. Pacific Time via Zoom to learn about the winning titles for the 2024 Mathical Book Prize! This online event is free and open to the public, and will feature live conversation with some of this year’s winning authors.
Math & Sports: Fact & Fiction
Do you love sports? Numbers – and other fine characters – abound in the nonfiction and fiction titles featured!
Mysteries, Math, and Unusual Events…
For middle-grade readers and up, curl up with a good book about intrepid puzzle-solvers and mysterious occurrences!
2023-24 Mathical Collection Development Award Winners
School Library Journal, SLMath select 32 Title I school libraries as winners of 2023-24 Mathical Collection Development Awards, receiving $850 grants to purchase Mathical Prize-winning books.
Math, Poetry, and Language Play
Math and…poetry? We love unlikely combinations… and hope you'll enjoy these rhythmic, rhyming treats.
Space, Tech, and Sci-Fi…to the Math!
You'll be amazed at how much fun math can be, when it's refracted through the lens of space travel, tech development, historical fiction, and science fiction.
ParentChild+ Shares Mathical Books with 300+ Bay Area Families
We are grateful to the Bay Area chapter of ParentChild+ who distributed more than 2,450 new Mathical books to families in need during Summer 2023. The book giveaway reached more than 300 families comprising more than 1,860 children from birth to age 5. Mathical books were provided in five languages to meet the needs of …
What Makes a Great Storybook Guide?
What makes a great storybook guide? We share the Mathical Books guides for educators, librarians, and parents from our collaborators, plus resources for more!
Mathical Collection Development Awards: Apply by Nov. 9, 2023
The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), in partnership with School Library Journal (SLJ), announce a fifth cycle of a funding program aimed at getting fiction and nonfiction inspiring a love of math into the hands of K–12 students in Title I schools. The 2023–24 Mathical Collection Development Awards will award $700 to up to 32 Title I U.S. …
Siblings in Math
When books mirror our lives, they are more fun to read. Here are some of our favorite Mathical children’s book titles featuring brothers, sisters, and family antics! AGAIN, ESSIE? by Jenny Lacika Rafael likes to build things. Essie likes to knock them down. What will it take for Rafael to create a barrier of makeshift …
NCTE, NCTM Distribute Mathical Books to Language Arts & Math Classrooms
Altogether more than 9,850 students in low-income schools received access to Mathical Books through grants to language arts and mathematics classroom teachers in Spring 2023.
2024 Selection Panel
Meet the members of the 2024 Mathical Book Prize Selection Panel.
Mathical Books: The Next Chapter
Mathical is bigger than a book prize. Once a book is selected for the Mathical List, the next chapter in our relationship begins…. We distribute Mathical books to kids in need both locally in the Bay Area and nationally in Title I schools. We connect authors with schools and libraries to host book readings. We …
Mathical 2024 Call for Submissions
The 2024 Mathical Book Prize submissions will open August 30 – September 29, 2023. In honor of Mathical’s 10th anniversary, publishers are warmly invited to submit an unlimited number of qualified titles for any and all age groups. UPDATE – September 30, 2023: The 2024 Mathical Book Prize submission period has now ended. Publishers who …
Welcoming the Guru Krupa Foundation
The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), organizer of the Mathical Book Prize, welcomes our newest supporter of Mathical, the Guru Krupa Foundation! The Guru Krupa Foundation (GKF) is a private foundation incorporated in New York. The Foundation follows a holistic approach to charitable giving, addressing a range of issues from education to basic sustenance, arts & culture, …
Quests, Adventures, and the Unknown
It’s time to go on a quest! Check out these Mathical award-winning stories of math action and adventure, for elementary, middle, and high school readers: A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L’Engle This classic novel traces Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin’s search for the children’s missing father through space and time. (Ages 8-10, …
Mathical Takes On Codes, Coding, and Coders!
Codes, ciphers, and computer programs feature in several books on the Mathical List. Explore the titles below and test your wits: learn about historical and fictional programmers and more! CODE BREAKER, SPY HUNTER: HOW ELIZEBETH FRIEDMAN CHANGED THE COURSE OF TWO WORLD WARS by Laurie Wallmark She started out deciphering codes in Shakespeare’s plays…then with …
2023 Mathical Book Prize Collection Development Award Winners
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, SLMath Tap 32 Title I School Libraries, Winners of 2023 Mathical Book Prize Collection Development Awards View on SLJ website 32 Title I school libraries to receive grants to purchase $700 in Mathical Prize-winning books Thirty-two schools have been named recipients of the 2023 Mathical Book Prize Collection Development Awards. Presented by the Simons …
Puzzles for All Ages, Mathical Style!
Do you love puzzles? So do we! Check out the wonderfully puzzling books below: HAVE YOU SEEN MY DRAGON? by Steve Light A child’s best friend may be a large green dragon…but where oh where on each page can that dragon be? (Ages 2-4) CAO CHONG WEIGHS AN ELEPHANT by Songju Ma Daemicke Can you …
Girl Power = Math Heroines + Inspiring Stories
Did Pi Day whet your appetite for math? We love these titles that show girls making waves in math! Explore a few of the many girl-power themed books on the Mathical List — for all ages, from kids to teens below. THE GIRL WITH A MIND FOR MATH: THE STORY OF RAYE MONTAGUE by Julia Finley …
CBC Hosts Q&A for Publishers
Children’s book publishing house representatives joined SLMath Outreach Coordinator Kirsten Bohl for a Live Q&A session about the Mathical Book Prize in a video call hosted by the Children’s Book Council on March 2, 2023. Publishers’ questions ranged from how the committee thinks about their decision making, to gaps in the list, to marketing of winning titles, …