Stuart J. Murphy travels all over the United States talking tothousands of kids. And you'll never believe what they talk about:MATH! Stuart shows kids that they use math every day -- to share apizza, spend their allowance, and even sort socks. Stuart writesfunny stories about math -- and if you read his books, you'll startto see the fun in math, too. Most classrooms celebrate 100 days of school. But for Mrs. Lopez'sclass, it's 100 days of cool! Something new and cool is bound tohappen every day, all the way from 1 to 100.
From Aunt Annie's Alligator to Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, this sturdy board book version of Dr. Seuss's ABC is now available in a bigger trim size. With Dr. Seuss as your guide, learning the alphabet is as fun and as funny as the feather on a Fiffer-feffer-feff!
It's the last week of Camp Grizzly, and the campers arepreparing to elect a mascot. Each day the Grizzly Gazette takes apoll to see who has the biggest percentage of the vote so far. Isit Sophie? Is it Daniel? Or could it be Corey, the new entry in therace? Corey's determined to do her best. But she's got to make up forlost time. Can she win out over Daniel and Sophie? No one will knowfor sure until the last vote is counted! A lively story about summer camp fun will help young readersunderstand both percentage and voting!
It's Kangaroo's birthday, but no one will play with him: notthe emu, the platypuses, the koalas, or even the dingos. They allhave too many things to do. What exactly are they doing? They'reusing multiplication to figure out just how many things they haveto do to plan a big surprise for Kangaroo!
The 21st Street Sluggerst-shirts are worn-out and dirty. Theyneed new ones, but they have no money. How can they raise somecash, and fast? By having a car wash! Learning to count money andmake change are important real-life math skills teamwork is themost valuable player in this sports story.
How did Leonardo da Vinci become interested in flight? Whatare some of his most famous paintings? Do his scientific ideasmeasure up to what we know today? Find out the answers to thesequestions and more in Magic Tree House Research Guide: Leonardo daVinci, Jack and Annie’s guide to the mad genius himself.
Would you rather be a clarinet . . . a trombone . . . or a drum? （How would you like to have someone going boom-boom on your tum?） Beginning readers are asked to ponder these–and a host of other odd choices–in this charming, provocative book by Dr. Seuss that encourages children to let their imaginations fly.
It's the Lumpkin family reunion, and Uncle Howie is ready withhis camera. All the cousins have to line up by age for theirpicture. But just as they are ready to say, ?ssafras!?omething goeswrong every time! This picture–perfect tale of family funillustrates the important math concept of number order.
One Saturday at the beach, Laura, Juan, and Sarah decide to havea sand castle contest. As the tide rises, the walls get longer, thetowers get taller, and the moats get deeper. The friends measuretheir sand castles with spoons, shovels, and bare feet until Larrythe lifeguard and his tape measure surprise them all.
Perry the Penguin needs 9 clams to buy an ice scooter -- buthe's not very good at saving. As Perry earns, spends, finds, loses,and borrows clams, a simple line graph demonstrates the concept ofnegative numbers.
