Stuart J Murphy

"A unique introduction to how charts and graphs can present data in an easy-to-understand way. Using engaging text and humor, this introduction to an otherwise dry mathematics concept explains how to show information in chart or graph form in clear terms for young readers."--

After playing boisterously at the playground, Percy learns how to keep himself and his friends safe and still have a good time. Includes questions about the text and a note to parents about visual learning.

Carlos learns the importance of washing his hands.

Introduces pattern recognition as a sock searches the house for its lost mate.

Uses a dialog between two friends, one who estimates, one who counts precisely, to show estimation at work in everyday life.

Learn to count by 5s and 10s by counting the lizards as they arrive for a show. It's almost time for the show to begin -- but where are all the lizards? As a frantic snake looks high and low for the performers, they start to arrive, first by fives and then by tens. Will all fifty lizards show up in time? A lively rhymed story and pictures bursting with color introduce the math concept of counting by fives and tens, an important first step in learning...

Two squabbling siblings learn about symmetry when their babysitter helps them build and fly a kite.

Four students arrive on the first day of school looking cool and their teacher challenges them to keep it up as they count down one hundred days to a cool celebration.

A drive to recycle cans on Earth Day teaches the children of the Maple Street School Save-the-Planet Club about place value.