Math Curse

Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes until your bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. Can you make 1 good outfit? Then you start to wonder: Why does everything have to be such a problem?  Because you're the victim of a Math Curse. That's why. But don't despair. This is one girl's story of how that curse can be broken. GoodReads

Author
Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
Age Range
Elementary
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Actual Size

In this visually stunning picture book, Caldecott Medalist Steve Jenkins illustrates animals both large and small at actual size. How big is a crocodile? What about a tiger, or the world’s largest spider? Can you imagine a tongue that is two feet long or an eye that’s bigger than your head? Sometimes facts and figures don’t tell the whole story. Sometimes you need to see things for yourself—at their actual size. GoodReads

Author
Steve Jenkins
Age Range
Elementary
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The Map of Good Memories

There are places that remind us of happy moments. Zoe, a little girl who has to flee from her city with her family because of a war, remembers them before she leaves. She uses them to draw a "map of good memories," knowing that they will always be with her. GoodReads

Author
Fran Nuño
Age Range
Preschool
Elementary
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Infinity and Me

Uma can't help feeling small when she peers up at the night sky. How many stars were in the sky? A million? A billion? Maybe the number was as big as infinity. She begins to wonder about infinity. Is infinity a number that grows forever? Is it an endless racetrack? Uma soon finds that the ways to think about this big idea may just be . . . infinite. GoodReads

Author
Kate Hosford
Age Range
Elementary
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I'm Trying to Love Math

Do multiplication tables give you hives? Do you break out in a sweat when you see more than a few numbers hanging out together? Then I'm Trying to Love Math is for you! In her signature hilarious style, Bethany Barton introduces readers to the things (and people) that use math in amazing ways -- like music, and spacecraft, and even baking cookies! This isn't a how-to math book, it's a way to think differently about math as a necessary and cool part of our lives! GoodReads

Author
Bethany Barton
Age Range
Preschool
Elementary
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