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Help Heloise add her dimes, nickels, and pennies to buy a hat at Madame Millie’s Millinery; tell time on the clock at the Tutti-Frutti Zoo; and calculate with Bertram the cost of his colossal birthday cake.
Clever text and imaginative art mesh to create playful, simple math problems right on target for ages 6—99 . . . anyone who loves the magic of numbers! Valorie Fisher has created fifteen miniature worlds, each showcasing an ingenious math problem (with more questions at the back of the book). In a starred review Publishers Weekly raved, “Math made fun? Problem solved.”
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Gr. 1-3. Based on the jacket illustration of a green dinosaur, many kids will be surprised that this book is neither about dinosaurs nor a traditional story. Instead, the dino--like every other character featured here--appears in one of the book's 15 "math mysteries." Each confidence-boosting number puzzle combines a brief vignette and question with a full-page illustration containing additional information and visual hints. Fisher, illustrator of Nonsense! (2004) and other titles, concocts age-appropriate problems, typically involving money, subtraction, or number identification ("[Dexter has] spotted every odd number from 1 to 20. Can you find them too?"), then extends each scenario with new questions collected at book's end. The mixed-media dioramas occasionally appear cluttered, and some children may wonder about the relevance of solving money-related problems that are so patently out-of-date (a handbag for 80 cents? Kate Spade would laugh). Still, the value of concrete math problems with a visual component is manifold, and this certainly deserves a place alongside Jon Scieszka's Math Curse (1995) and books by Stewart Murphy and Greg Tang. |
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I bought this because my children love Fisher's other books, especially, "Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ears, ...", which they had at their school. "How High Can a Dinosaur Count?", is the best yet.
The math is playful, but practical enough that the kids can use it. The reader has to add up her nickels and dimes to answer the question, "Can Heloise buy a hat?" Or do some subtraction to determine, "How many daisies does Daphne eat for dinner?" All of the answers, plus 60 additional "Math Mysteries" are in the back of the book.
As always, Fisher's illustrations are captivating. She creates a world that you'll want to visit. They are classic, yet quirky and wonderfully colorful, with surprising depth (how does she do this?). But be warned, Madame Millie's Millinery has inspired my wife to paint our chest of drawers!
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