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February 16, 2026

An Old Favorite, The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures, by Malba Tahan, shows the fun side of math, featuring a man who travels about cleverly solving mathematical puzzles.

Happy Reading!

—Sondra Eklund

by Mark Knoblauch

by Kamala Harris
read by the Author

by Sara Holly Ackerman
illustrated by Galia Bernstein

by Sara Andrea Fajardo
illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal

Fiction

by Sarah Beth Durst
read by Caitlin Davies

by Monica Wood
read by Eileen Stevens

by Kate Messner
read by Mack Gordon

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

by Malba Tahan

by Misty Wilson
read by Rebekkah Ross

by Maggie Stiefvater
read by Will Patten

by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett
read by a full cast

by Richard Maurer

by Brian Floca
pictures by Sydney Smith

by Sascha Alper
illustrations by Jerry Pinkney and Brian Pinkney