About This Book
Reach for this book when your child is starting to notice patterns or when they need a gentle lesson on how overthinking a plan can sometimes lead to missing the goal. While it is ostensibly a math book, it is truly a story about the tension between group efficiency and individual impatience. You will follow one hundred ants as they march toward a picnic, stopping repeatedly to rearrange their lines into different mathematical arrays at the urging of a bossy little ant. It is a fantastic choice for children aged 4 to 8 who are moving beyond simple counting and into the world of multiplication and division. Parents will appreciate the rhythmic, rhyming text that makes a complex subject like factors of one hundred feel like a playful game, even as the ants learn a humorous lesson about the cost of delay.
What Parents Should Know
Sensitive Topics
None. The book is entirely secular and focuses on logic and group dynamics. The 'loss' of the food is treated with comedic frustration rather than genuine peril.
