Ten Orange Pumpkins: A Counting Book by Stephen Savage has amazingly clear illustrations that play with light and shadow and silhouette. The text is pleasantly simple. Rhyming, but not too rhymey. Know what I mean?
I have read it to Jill a dozen times, and I could read it a dozen more. She loves to find the black cat on every page. In addition to being a counting book, it's a fun Halloween read.
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos by Deborah Heiligman is the picture book biography of the famous mathematician, Erdos (pronounced Air-dish). He loved math so much, he missed out on learning some basic life skills.
When he leaves home for the first time, he can't butter his bread or do laundry or pay bills.
No worries. The mathematicians he visits take care of things for him so he can spend his whole life doing math.
Favorite part: Erdos refers to the children of his friends as Epsilons and the delightful pictures by LeUyen Pham show children wearing t-shirts emblazoned with the Greek letter Epsilon. Yes, Jill and Polly would look adorable in Epsilon t-shirts. Who on Etsy can grant this wish?
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky is not for the pre-school set. Edmund and I learned from it though. Question: If Erastothenes knew the earth was round and measured it like 2000+ years ago, how come Columbus's critics didn't get the memo by 1492?
Anyway, I find it fascinating that someone figured out and actually got a crew of people on board to measure the circumference of the earth BY HAND! Or actually, by foot. They weren't off by much either!
I'm a visual learner, so it makes sense that I love seeing math in nature. Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature by Susan C. Campbell explains the Fibonacci sequence and shows us brilliant photos of the sequence in God's creation all around us. God is so smart.
Laura, WWRW linker upper, wrote about another Fibonacci picture book last week, over at her space called "To Say Nothing of the Sideshow." Of course, I have to check out The Rabbit Problem myself now, as well as On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein which popped up on one of my Amazon searches.
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