Sponsored
Circle! Sphere! - (Storytelling Math) by Grace Lin (Board Book)
$7.20 sale price when purchased online
$7.99 list price
Target Online store #3991
About this item
Highlights
- Caldecott Honor winner Grace Lin celebrates math for every kid, everywhere!
- 0-2 Years
- 5.9" x 5.9" Board Book
- 16 Pages
- Juvenile Fiction, Concepts
- Series Name: Storytelling Math
Description
About the Book
"Manny, Olivia, and Mei are blowing bubbles. Manny's wand is a circle, Olivia's wand is a square, and Mei's wand is a heart. What shape will their bubbles be? Engages young children in exploring geometry and making predictions."--Book Synopsis
Caldecott Honor winner Grace Lin celebrates math for every kid, everywhere! Manny and his friends Olivia and Mei blow bubbles in this playful introduction to geometry. Manny's wand is a circle. Olivia's wand is a square. Mei's wand is a heart. What shape will their bubbles be? (Surprise! They're all spheres.) Storytelling Math celebrates children using math in their daily adventures as they play, build, and discover the world around them. Joyful stories and hands-on activities make it easy for kids and their grown-ups to explore everyday math together. Developed in collaboration with math experts at STEM education nonprofit TERC, under a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation.Review Quotes
♦ 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 it's 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 children's three different-shaped bubble wands produce the same-shaped bubble. Fit's setting is a fall farmers' market and illustrates Olivia's 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.
--The Horn Book, starred review
About the Author
Grace Lin is the author and illustrator of more than twenty books for children, including the Newbery Honor Book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown), the Geisel Honor Book Ling and Ting: Not Exactly the Same! (Little, Brown), and The Ugly Vegetables. She is also the co-author and illustrator of Our Seasons. She lives in Florence, Massachusetts.Dimensions (Overall): 5.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: .35 Pounds
Suggested Age: 0-2 Years
Number of Pages: 16
Series Title: Storytelling Math
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Sub-Genre: Concepts
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Theme: Counting & Numbers
Format: Board Book
Author: Grace Lin
Language: English
Street Date: October 13, 2020
TCIN: 92192406
UPC: 9781623541248
Item Number (DPCI): 247-24-5349
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
If the item details above aren’t accurate or complete, we want to know about it.
Shipping details
Estimated ship dimensions: 0.5 inches length x 5.9 inches width x 5.9 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.35 pounds
We regret that this item cannot be shipped to PO Boxes.
This item cannot be shipped to the following locations: American Samoa (see also separate entry under AS), Guam (see also separate entry under GU), Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico (see also separate entry under PR), United States Minor Outlying Islands, Virgin Islands, U.S., APO/FPO
Return details
This item can be returned to any Target store or Target.com.
This item must be returned within 90 days of the date it was purchased in store, shipped, delivered by a Shipt shopper, or made ready for pickup.
See the return policy for complete information.