Mathematickles!
Written
by Betsy Franco
Illustrated
by Steven Salerno
Simon
& Schuster, 2003
31
pages
Poetry
As I was at the Jacksonville public library looking for a
completely different book when I found Mathematickles! When I read the cover, I thought of my best
friend’s mother who is a math teacher and thought it would be a good book. I checked it out and really enjoyed it. This book is a poetry book written in
mathematical terms about the seasons.
The book starts out describing Fall and goes through all four seasons
and things that one does during those seasons. It ends in the late summer with
the young girl sleeping in her bed with a… Well, I can’t tell you everything
about the book. Stop by your local
library or your favorite bookstore and check it out.
The cartoon illustrations are done in water color and
gouache. The illustrations cover both
pages and really have a strong use of color to make the seasons pop off the
page. The illustrator used brown, orange
and purple for Fall and blue, white and pink for Winter. The other seasons are depicted well along
with how the text is laid out. Text is
on top of the illustrations as part of the picture itself.
This book would be good for third through sixth
grade. It will take any reader a moment
to understand what the book is about and how the use of math and the seasons
are incorporated. The use of graphs and
other mathematical words may confuse a younger reader. This book will be good for a math lesson for
the obvious reason. It would be good for
an Art lesson also to show the students how they can incorporate multiple subjects
together. A language arts lesson will
work well also with the poetry and to explain to the students that they don’t
have to write rhyming poetry all the time.
At this time this book has won no honors or awards.
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