Infinity and Me
When I looked up, I shivered. How many stars were in the sky? A million? A billion? Maybe the number was as big as infinity. I started to feel very, very small. How could I even think about something as big as infinity? Uma can't help feeling small when she peers up at the night sky. She begins...
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When I looked up, I shivered. How many stars were in the sky? A million? A billion? Maybe the number was as big as infinity. I started to feel very, very small. How could I even think about something as big as infinity? Uma can't help feeling small when she peers up at the night sky. She begins to wonder about infinity. Is infinity a number that grows forever? Is it an endless racetrack? Could infinity be in an ice cream cone? Uma soon finds that the ways to think about this big idea may just be . . . infinite.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780761367260 (0761367268)
Publish date: October 2012
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Non Fiction,
Academic,
School,
Science,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Art,
Family,
Picture Books,
Mathematics
I wonder if this shouldn't be its own genre. Ever since Ruth Krauss did A Hole is to Dig, it seems like the book based on child interviews is a 'thing'. This could be called a concept book, but it's really more of an inquiry book. The main effort of the character is to learn more. Gabi Swiatowska's ...
A young girl tries to understand and imagine the infinite in this stunning, lushly illustrated story.
Read Paul Hankin's review here. I especially like the way this book captures a child's wondering about the world. In this case it is the concept of infinity. Oftentimes children ponder the many mysteries of their world as it unfolds around them, and Infinity and Me offers an opportunity for family o...
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