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Review of the Day: Growing Patterns by Sarah C. Campbell
Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature By Sarah C. Campbell Photographs by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell Boyds Mills Press $17.95 ISBN: 978-1-59078-752-6 Ages 6 and up On shelves...
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Review of the Day: Eat Your Math Homework by Ann McCallum
Eat Your Math Homework: Recipes for Hungry Minds By Ann McCallum Illustrated by Leeza Hernandez Charlesbridge $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-57091-779-0 Ages 7-11 On shelves July 1st. Cooking. Math. Not the usual...
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Review of the Day: How Many Jelly Beans? by Andrea Menotti
How Many Jelly Beans?: A Giant Book of Giant Numbers! By Andrea Menotti Illustrated by Yancey Labat Chronicle Books $18.99 ISBN: 978-1-4521-0206-1 Ages 4-8 On shelves February 29th Boy, I tell you. You...
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Fusenews: Answer – The Horse
The laptop of my infinite sadness continues to remain broken which wrecks a certain special kind of havoc with my gray cells. To distract myself, I plunge headlong into the silliest news of the week....
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Review of the Day: The Chicken Problem by Jennifer Oxley and Billy Aronson
The Chicken Problem By Jennifer Oxley and Billy Aronson Random House $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-375-86989-1 Ages 3-7 On shelves now. I was once in Prospect Park in Brooklyn when I passed a very small child...
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Review of the Day: The Boy Who Loved Math by Deborah Heiligman
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdős By Deborah Heiligman Illustrated by LeUyen Pham Roaring Brook (an imprint of Macmillan) ISBN: 978-1-59643-307-6 Ages 6 and up On shelves June...
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Review of the Day: Meanwhile by Jason Shiga
Meanwhile By Jason Shiga Amulet (an imprint of Abrams) $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-8109-8423-3 Ages 8 and up On shelves now Quantum physics, parallel worlds, probability, entropy. Yes it’s all in a day’s work...
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Fusenews: Starring the World’s Creepiest Cat in the Hat!
Here in New York we’re getting very excited. The 90-Second Film Festival is coming!! And soon too! Here’s a PW interview with James Kennedy about the festival and for those of you in the NYC area...
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31 Days, 31 Lists: Day Ten – 2016 Math Picture Books
God has a sense of humor. How else to explain the fact that for the past three or four years I have been a founding and contributing member of the Mathical Book Award committee? Yep, each year I read...
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Math Books for Kids: The Truth is Out There
On Monday I gave two talks at the 2017 NerdCamp conference held in Parma, MI. This would be the second time I spoke at the conference and my talks probably couldn’t have been more diametrically...
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Review of the Day: How Many Guinea Pigs Can Fit On a Plane? by Laura Overdeck
How Many Guinea Pigs Can Fit On a Plane? Answers to Your Most Clever Math Questions By Laura Overdeck Feiwel and Friends (an imprint of Macmillan) $17.99 ISBN: 978-1-250-07229-0 Ages 9-12 On shelves...
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31 Days, 31 Lists: Day Ten – 2017 Math Picture Books
It’s almost unfair that I’m not including math for older readers on today’s list, but for that I think you’ll be best suited turning to the awesome Mathical Awards, given out each year. The Mathical...
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Review of the Day: Nothing Stopped Sophie by Cheryl Bardoe and Barbara...
Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain By Cheryl Bardoe Illustrated by Barbara McClintock Little, Brown and Co. $17.99 ISBN: 978-0316278201 On shelves June 12th I...
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Fusenews: O my cabbage stalks, I must leave you behind!
It’s been a while! You can tell when I’ve been flush with content because my Fusenews posts become a bit less frequent. But here we go. I’m back, and I just have so MUCH to tell you! Where to start,...
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Review of the Day: The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl By Stacy McAnulty Random House Books for Young Readers $16.99 ISBN: 9781524767570 Ages 9-12 On shelves now The world would have us believe that the left brained...
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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Math Books for Kids
I’m not entirely certain how I ended up on the Mathical Book Prize committee, but it’s one of the best darn things that’s ever happened to me. Do you know what it’s like to be an English major with a...
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Press Release Fun: The 2019 Mathical Book Prize Winners Announced!
Math + Literature = 2019 Mathical Book Prize Winners! From the inspiring true stories of the Apollo 8 astronauts and a pioneering woman mathematician to tales of a middle school girl struck by...
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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2019 Math Books for Kids
It was a funny trick of fate that I, your average librarian/former English major, ended up serving each and every year on the Mathical Book Prize committee. If you are unfamiliar with the prize, it’s...
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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Math Books for Kids
Honestly, I don’t know how it happened, but by this point I’ve been serving on the Mathical Book Prize committee for something like five or six years now. And you know what? I love it! Everybody loves...
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31 Days, 31 Lists: Day Ten – 2017 Math Picture Books
It’s almost unfair that I’m not including math for older readers on today’s list, but for that I think you’ll be best suited turning to the awesome Mathical Awards, given out each year. The Mathical...
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