By: Grace LinTwo friends. Three marshmallows. Now what?It's hot cocoa weather, and Olivia and Mei have a delicious problem! Can the two friends put their heads together and use number sense to share their treats fairly?This warm, inclusive early-childhood
By: Grace Lin
It’s hot cocoa weather, and Olivia and Mei have a delicious problem! Can the two friends put their heads together and use number sense to share their treats fairly?
This warm, inclusive early-childhood introduction to number sense and division is part of the Storytelling Math series. Get in on the ground floor of learning with this series that combines essential math topics, diverse characters, and engaging stories!
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Circle! Sphere!
Up to My Knees!
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Grace Lin, author and illustrator
Grace Lin is the award-winning author and illustrator ofThe Ugly Vegetables, A Big Mooncake for Little Star, and Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Grace is a Newbery Honoree, a Caldecott Honoree, and a Geisel Honoree. She lives in Florence, Massachusetts
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The Horn Book, starred review
In board book form, Lin accomplishes that most difficult of tasks: creating engaging, accessible, age-level-appropriate, not-too-fussily illustrated stories that also teach something. In this case its math. Each entry homes in on a specific mathematical concept, while together providing a tour through the seasons and a slice-of-life portrait of three friends, Olivia, Mei, and Manny. In the springtime-set Knees, Mei observes measurement and comparison as she cultivates a sunflower. Circle! Sphere! proves the mind-stretching fact that the childrens three different-shaped bubble wands produce the same-shaped bubble. Fits setting is a fall farmers market and illustrates Olivias spatial sense (and taste in produce). Wintry Marshmallow touches on division, both mathematical (how to split three marshmallows between two girls) and behavioral (without ruining the friendship). The illustrations are signature Lin think The Ugly Vegetables (rev. 9/99) and the Ling and Ting books with bold, saturated hues; thick black outlines; judicious use of frames; eye-pleasingly tidy details; and nothing extraneous. Brief Exploring the Math notes and Try This! suggestions, addressed to adults and written by an early math expert, are appended. All together, these diminutive math storybooks add up to a whole lot of fun.
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Board
ISBN: 978-1-62354-126-2
Spanish Bilingual Board
ISBN:978-1-62354-226-9
E-book
ISBN: 978-1-63289-989-7 EPUB
Ages: 0-2
Page count: 20
6 x 6
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