Melanie Gerth
Recognized in the Creative Minds Montessori 2026 Teacher’s Choice list.
Melanie Gerth is one of roughly one hundred authors whose work was selected by the Montessori-certified teachers at Creative Minds Montessori for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list — 120 books chosen across four reading stages, from first lap-reads to first chapter books. The selected book was chosen for how precisely it meets children at a real developmental moment. This recognition cannot be bought: no author or publisher paid to appear on our lists, and we take no commission on any book sale.
About Melanie Gerth
Melanie Gerth wrote Ten Little Ladybugs, the dimensional counting book that became a 21st-century baby-gift standard — proof that one precisely engineered idea can carry a whole book.
Also by this author: Five Little Sharks Swimming in the Sea
Publisher page: www.scholastic.com/teachers/authors/melanie-gerth
Selected for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list
Part of The Best Children’s Books by Age, chosen by the teachers at Creative Minds Montessori in Frisco, TX.