Ten Magic Butterflies
by Danica McKellar (Author) Jennifer Bricking (Illustrator)
One by one, ten flowers ask a fairy to turn them into butterflies for a night of magical flying, demonstrating to readers the different ways to group numbers to create ten.
Fairies, butterflies, and magic help to make this math-focused picture book a positively enchanting back to school read -- no matter what that looks like this year!
Join ten flower friends for a night of excitement that mixes a little math with a lot of magic. As each flower turns into a butterfly, children will discover different ways to group numbers to create ten, an essential building block of math, all while watching each flower's dream come true.
(And keep an eye out for the adorable caterpillar who wishes he could fly, too!)
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Ten flowers ask a local fairy to help them achieve their dreams of flight; the fairy complies, turning them into butterflies. Actor, author, and math advocate McKellar uses the flowers' story to touch on concepts of addition, subtraction, and regrouping: "2 butterflies flew as/ 8 flowers looked on./ There were still 10 of them--/ in the sky, on the lawn." Creating a cast of anthropomorphic flowers isn't easy, and Bricking goes in a glossy, commercial direction in her images, giving the flowers large doe eyes and expressive leaf "limbs." Although McKellar's verse can get herky-jerky or syrupy ("But big and tall, / or short and small, / being ourselves/ is best of all"), parents may find this backyard fantasy a useful way to jump-start their children's interest in math. Ages 4-6. Author's agent: Laura Nolan, Aevitas Creative Management. Illustrator's agency: Shannon Associates. (Feb.)
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Parents may find this backyard fantasy a useful way to jump-start their children's interest in math.
—Publishers Weekly
Alicia Padrón is known for her sweet characters and soft colors. She lives in Florida with her husband, two children, and dogs Lucy and Luna.
JUV009030 - Juvenile Fiction | Concepts | Counting & Numbers
JUV002300 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Butterflies, Moths & Caterpillars
Stories in rhyme
Fairies
Butterflies
Arithmetic
JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic
Flowers
JUVENILE FICTION / Concepts / Counting & Numb
JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Butterflies, Mot
