Kid Review – Charts for Babies – picture book

Rial, Michelle. Charts for Babies. New York: Abrams Appleseed, 2026.

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Summary

From Michelle Rial, the writer of viral favorite Am I Overthinking This?, comes a quirky and delightful picture book exploring multiple early-learning concepts through simple graphic charts and graphs

Little charts for big hearts! Through boldly illustrated timelines, pie charts, bar graphs, and Venn diagrams, young readers will learn about colors, opposites, shapes, feelings, and much more in this unconventional STEM picture book with the sweetest ending ever.

Michelle Rial’s colorful, graphic style and infectious rhyming text make this a real off-the-charts read-aloud.

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My Kid Review

Reading this book, I’m not sure if it is a picture book to teach concepts to babies or a picture book to teach types of graphs to older children – I guess it is both. 

The text teaches young children about opposites such as stop and go, dark and light, in and out, and many more. Each illustration is presented as a graph, with each type identified at the end of the book. I can see elementary and middle school math teachers using this book to help illustrate graphs and charts.

Rial shows a lot of creativity in the way this book is presented. It really is a useful tool across age levels. I do think that a different title would make the book more appealing to different ages. The title Charts for Babies makes one think the book is for toddlers, but it’s really for a much wider audience. 

I think Charts for Babies could find a place in a K-12 Christian school library, although the title might prevent some from checking it out. 

I received a complimentary copy of Charts for Babies. This is my honest review.

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