Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
10 best books like Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci (Joseph D'Agnese): Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature, Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, Snowflake Bentley, Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare, The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos, A Medieval Feast, Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909, Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere, The Librarian Who Measured the Earth, Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature
| Author | Joyce Sidman |
Fascinating scientific information about how spirals are so prevalent in nature. This goes for individual animals (and animal parts and postures), individual plants, ocean waves, clouds, and entire galaxies.
I love how this can be read...
| Author | Margot Lee Shetterly |
| ISBN | 0062742469 |
They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a...
Snowflake Bentley
| Author | Jacqueline Briggs Martin |
| ISBN | 0395861624 |
From the time he was a small boy in Vermont, Wilson Bentley saw snowflakes as small miracles. And he determined that one day his camera...
| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0688162940 |
Drama...
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos
| Author | Deborah Heiligman |
| ISBN | 1596433078 |
| Author | Aliki |
| ISBN | 0064460509 |
| Author | Michelle Markel |
| ISBN | 0061804428 |
But that did not stop Clara.
She went to night school, spent hours studying...
| Author | Barb Rosenstock |
| ISBN | 0316393827 |
On June 6, 1930, engineer Otis Barton and explorer Will Beebe dove into the ocean inside a hollow metal ball of their own invention called the Bathysphere.
They knew...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0316515264 |
This colorfully illustrated biography of the Greek philosopher and scientist Eratosthenes, who compiled the first geography book and accurately measured the globe's circumference,...
| Author | Jen Bryant |
| ISBN | 0449813371 |
Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to...
| Author | Barbara Herkert |
| ISBN | 1627792457 |
When young Elwyn White lay in bed as a sickly child, a bold house mouse befriended him. When the time came for kindergarten,...
Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature
| Author | Sarah C. Campbell |
| ISBN | 1590787528 |
Infinity and Me
| Author | Kate Hosford |
| ISBN | 0761367268 |
Uma can't help feeling small when she peers up at the night sky. She begins to wonder...
Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains
| Author | Deborah Hopkinson |
Apples, ho!
When Papa decides to pull up roots and move from Iowa to Oregon, he can’t bear to leave his precious apple trees behind. Or his...
Chanticleer and the Fox
| Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| ISBN | 0064430871 |