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Eric loves math. Eric loves counting. Eric loves numbers! He dreams about them all night and thinks about them all day. He even has a special job thinking up numbers to lock the safe at the Big Bear Bank.
But one day, two robbers storm into the bank, and suddenly he can’t remember any numbers at all. Can Eric the Math Bear save the day?Caroline Glicksman makes her picture book debut in this colorful and action-packed math adventure. ... Read more

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Eric the Math Bear
I read this story to my son who is almost six years old. He really enjoyed having to find and count all the different things that Eric likes to count on his way to work.The pictures are very colorful and busy which helped keep his attention. There is a little violence that I was surprised by in the book. Two polar bears attempt to rob the bank that Eric works at, they call him "tomato face", and threaten to eat his new friend Erica. I felt that the book could have gone a much better direction than that. To me, those three events seemed a little unappropriate for younger readers. When the story was over, my son wanted to go back to the page where he had to find and count the different things Eric liked to count. I even had him find and count other items that were in the picture and he really enjoyed that as well. I liked how it helped him with his counting and how it challenged him to find the items I asked for.

Destiny Speaks
Eric is a Red Bear who loves numbers, so where else would h have a job except in the BANK? He foils a bank robbery using the twos times tables, finds a new girlfriend who loves numbers as much as he does, and scoots off on his Vespa to a destiny fulfilled. Not for preschoolers, I'd use this one with second graders and older kids and challenge them to write their OWN arithmetical adventures for Eric the Red to continue his numbered days. ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Tells the story of three pigs who acquire some magic shapes, which they use for various purposes, some smart and some not so smart. Includes a section with related activities. ... Read more

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Wonderful Tangram Story
This is a wonderful book that uses the story of the Three Little Pigs to introduce tangrams.Students enjoy the twist to a well-known story.They like to recreate the animals and objects in the story with their own set of tangrams.

buy it, it is good
We were given this book as a hand me down and because we love it so much we have purchased it twice as a gift.Not only is it a cute story, but it also offers itself as an activity for your child.Great book, great buy.We recommend it!Reading is always good and how great that it is more than just a book.

Wonderful!
A pig, two pigs, three... We all know about this story.
Here we are not only a wolf but also a tangram!
A wonderful idea!
The tangram is here to help the pigs.
The pig that success the best to use this tangram
will be the winner and will have many children!
The addition of the tangram made more attractive
this beautiful story. My children (4 and 7) are delighted:
they help me very well. The figures (duck, cat, rabbit,
candle,swan, house and boat) are relatively easy to make.

un tangram bien employé
Un cochon, deux cochons, trois.... Nous connaissons tous cette histoire. Ici nous avons en plus du loup, aussi un tangram! Très bonne idée! Le tangram est là pour aider les cochons. Le cochon qui réussira le mieux àutiliser le tangram sortira gagnant et aura beaucoup d'enfants! L'AJOUT DUTANGRAM N'A FAIT QU'EMBELLIR CETTE BELLE HISTOIRE. Mes enfants sont raviset ont pu activement participer à l'histoire. Les figures (canard, chat,lapin, bougie, cygne, maison et bateau) sont relativement faciles àréaliser.

An Excellent Introduction
This book is an excellent introduction to tangrams and geometric shapes for young children. The reader learns the names of the geometric shapes as well as seeing several pictures made from tangrams as part of the story.The book includes a set of cardboard tangrams so the reader can replicatethe shapes in the book(such as a boat, bunny, cat) and also make up newones.Good suggestions are included for parents and teachers on how to usethe materials for students at different ability levels. ... Read more

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Open the pages of this book to get an inside look at how people use banks everyday. Find out the different ways you can save money, how debit and smart cards are changing the way people bank, and how to fix credit problems. In this books, you will also dis

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It's Christmas Eve and the Pigs are headed for Bean Town, but they miss their flight. Luckily, Mr. Pig gets them seats on a special delivery plane. Sure, they have a few extra stops along the way, but the plane is full of holiday spirit, and the Pigs have plenty of time to get to their destination before Santa arrives. Or so they think... ... Read more

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Mary Clare loves to share. If there's food around, Mary Clare fairly divides it up and shares it with her friends and family, no matter how many there are! This rhythmic, rhyming reader clearly demonstrates the concept of fractions in a bouncy and sweet--and savory--way!


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Bigotry selling children's books?
As a proud father of a toddler, I was shocked to find out that this author was actually a staunch supporter of the anti-marriage equality proposition in California that stripped away rights of thousands of gay and lesbian couples.She gave tens of thousands of dollars.Apparently, she was part of the Mormon church's campaign to pass Proposition 8.I would never support someone with this background and am horrified to think that my kid might have been exposed to her ideals.Glad I found out about her before I purchased.

Mary Clare Likes to Share - excellent!
"Mary Clare likes to Share" is a great book, for a number of reasons. Fractions are well presented throughout the book, and we often refer to the fraction figures inside the cover to reinforce the point. Our daughter is now 3-years old, and really likes this book. I like that it not only introduces fractions, it teaches sharing. The season of the book is probably late May until June 18, Mary Clare's birthday. She has a brother Lee, and at least 5 cousins.Mary Clare's age, and whether Lee is older or younger, remain questions. The illustrations and colors are well done.

Thank you!!!
A math reader that does what it purports to do -- teach fractions.

The book teaches both pictorially and through the words... it rhymes... it makes sense... and I even like the illustrations.

Thank you to Joy Hulme, who knocked this one out of the park!Well done. ... Read more

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An introduction to the science of rocketry from the time of the earliest Chinese rockets in A.D. 1231 to the present. ... Read more

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Describes the development and deployment of man-made satellites and surveys their many varied uses--past, present, and future. ... Read more

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Somebody has stolen money from the soccer team. Everyone thinks Tom, the team's big bully, did it, but he says it wasn't him. Should Adam, Amy, Joy, and Sam believe him and help? They will have to figure out how much money was stolen - and also why! The kids work with dollars and cents to find . . . The Hundred-Dollar Robber. ... Read more

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Always interesting, provides blend of science andhistory, includes some relevant "human interest" narratives.
The book is 128 pages long, with 25 full-page black and white illustrations.One of the illustrations is a map of England (I love maps) and another is a photograph of present-day Folkestone, William Harvey's hometown.Also, as might be expected, we find many old drawings from the 1600s.

CONTEXT.The book is easy to understand for a number of reasons.These reasons include the disclosure of the context of various events, use of short sentences, and use of very short sentences.The author is careful to provide the reader with the temporal context (what happened before; what happened after) for various events and facts.For example, in describing William Harvey's hometown, Folkestone, the author tells us that large ships had once sailed in its harbor, but later on sand made the harbor too shallow (page 11).We learn where Harvey went to school.Most authors would have been content to inform us that the school was "Gonville and Caius College."However, Lisa Yount goes a step further, and tells us what had occurred at an earlier time--"Caius" was added to the name when John Caius, a physician, donated money to the college (page 13).

VALVES IN VEINS.Most important, and central to any book on William Harvey, is the temporal contexts of his discoveries.For example, we learn that Harvey's teacher, Fabricus, believed that the purpose of valves (in veins) was to regulate the rate of blood flow (faster; slower) (pages 18-20, 54-57).We learn that years later, Harvey discovered that valves actually regulate the direction, not the rate, of blood flow (pages 54-57).

PULMONARY CIRCULATION.We learn that, at an earlier time, it was believed that blood moved from the right side of the heart to the left side, by way of invisible pores (page 47).In contrast, we learn that Harvey discovered that the true passageway was via the pulmonary circulation (pages 48-50).

A SIMPLE CALCULATION.We learn a technique used by Harvey to persuade others of the existence of the circulatory system.In hindsight, this technique seems very simple.At an earlier time, it was thought that the purpose of the heart was to add "vital spirit," and that after leaving the heart, the blood was used up (page 51).In contrast, Harvey calculated that if this notion was true, the body would have to create 1000 pounds of new blood per hour (pages 52-53).

TINY SENTENCES ADD EMPHASIS.Another reason why Lisa Yount's book is easy to understand, is its occasional use of tiny sentences.Describing William Harvey's hometown, the author writes, "It was a small coastal town." (page 10)Contrasting atria with ventricles, the author writes, "They do different things." (page 45).This "tiny sentence" technique is not used all the time, and is not used arbitrarily.It is used only here and there, to add emphasis, almost like a form of punctuation.

HUMAN INTEREST.Lisa Yount provides some human interest commentary. For example, she writes, "Most people of Harvey's time believed in witches . . . an eleven year old boy in Lancashire told a strange tale.He said he had been kidnapped by a witch . . . Harvey and other doctors examined the accused witches and found nothing unnatural about them." (pages 66-68).Page 67 shows a full-page illustration, from 1659, of a witch.

(It might be interesting to know if this is the same Lancashire as in the Beatles' song, A DAY IN THE LIFE ("I read the news today, oh boy.Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. And though the holes were rather small. They had to count them all").

Fortunately, the author never goes so far as to introduce fictional writing.For example, the author never writes things like, "One cold and stormy night, William Harvey trudged through the snow on the way to an anatomy lesson, but his thoughts were not on his studies.Instead, he was dreaming about the lovely Elizabeth Browne, a fetching lass with an even more fetching dowry."We do, in fact, learn about Elizabeth Browne, but here the author provides us with a quotation about Harvey's wife from one of Harvey's books (pages 24-25).FIVE STARS.
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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Oscar wants to enter a contest--and another, and another--but he can only do it by asking some friends to divide the costs--and the rewards--with him. ... Read more

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Good teaching resource
This book is suitable for a teacher who has just started the topic of division with their class.A good resource to base activities on, encourage interest in the topic and to aid understanding. ... Read more

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Mike learns how fast dirty dishes can pile up when he tries to avoid washing them. ... Read more

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A biography of the cloth merchant-turned-scientist who made many discoveries examining microsopic life. ... Read more