The Last Marshmallow - (Storytelling Math) by Grace Lin (Board Book)
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Highlights
- Playing in the winter snow calls for hot cocoa!
- 0-2 Years
- 5.9" x 5.9" Board Book
- 16 Pages
- Juvenile Fiction, Concepts
- Series Name: Storytelling Math
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About the Book
"Olivia and Mei have two cups of cocoa and three big marshmallows. Olivia gets one marshmallow, and Mei gets one marshmallow. How will they share the last one? Engages young children in the math of sharing equally"--Book Synopsis
Playing in the winter snow calls for hot cocoa! Explore early math concepts as the friends try to evenly split some tasty marshmallows. Caldecott Honor winner Grace Lin celebrates math for every kid, everywhere! After playing in the snow, Olivia and Mei are ready for cocoa. There's one marshmallow for Olivia and one marshmallow for Mei. But what will they do with the third marshmallow? How can two friends share three things fairly? 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
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Sub-Genre: Concepts
Series Title: Storytelling Math
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Theme: Counting & Numbers
Format: Board Book
Author: Grace Lin
Language: English
Street Date: October 13, 2020
TCIN: 79678571
UPC: 9781623541262
Item Number (DPCI): 247-40-8448
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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