Ants Rule the Long and Short of it.

Reviewed by: Jan Hamilton - Little Dolphin School, Scarborough, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: July 4, 2017

Review

Both fun and educational, "Ants Rule" is sure to please parents, teachers and early education students. The playful text offers smiling bugs of all varieties and sizes. Each is measured and identified, depicted on simple graphs, and combined to make a circle graph representing the entire diverse group. What appears to be a silly math lesson ends with a fold out page of delight.

Perhaps the single best thing is the colorful design made with a child in mind. Barner has offered a text that provides lots of quiet white space surrounding bright active adorable bugs. The math is presented in an easily digestible manner that will satisfy reader's interest and lead them to ask questions about measurement. This book fits into units related to math and science, add it to early grade classrooms. Public libraries should consider fitting this title into their concept book collections.

Overall Book Score: very good