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Life of Fred: Apples

10 best books like Life of Fred: Apples (Stanley F. Schmidt): The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way, The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance, Drawing with Children: A Creative Method for Adult Beginners, Too, What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew?, Pagoo, What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math Adventure, Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin, Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar, Family Math, Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians, Volume 1

The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way
AuthorJoy Hakim
ISBN1588341607
Readers will travel back in time to ancient Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece. They will meet the world's first astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists and explore the lives and ideas of such famous people as Pythagoras, Archimedes, Brahmagupta, al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Ptolemy, St. Augustine,...
The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance
AuthorSusan Wise Bauer
ISBN1933339098
Now more than ever, other cultures are affecting our everyday lives and our children need to learn about the other countries of the world and their history. Susan Wise Bauer has provided a captivating guide to the history of other lands. Written in an engaging, straightforward manner, this revised...
Drawing with Children: A Creative Method for Adult Beginners, Too
AuthorMona Brookes
ISBN0874778271
Since the publication of the best-selling first edition of Drawing with Children in 1986, Monart Drawing Schools have expanded all over the country. Teachers are eager for the chance to learn the Monart Drawing Method, a practical, field-tested technique that assumes no prior knowledge of art or...
What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew?
AuthorRobert E. Wells
ISBN0807588377
My son and I read this book as a part of Sonlight's P4/5 curriculum. This is the third book we've read by Robert E. Wells and I am in love with his books. He has this wonderful way of taking complex science and mathematics concepts and making them accessible to preschoolers and young children. My son has also...
Pagoo
AuthorHolling Clancy Holling
ISBN0395539641
I want to be a Hermit Crab.



No mortgages, just move when you want a new dwelling and take it over. I like that. Pagoo (short for 'Pagurus') is a Hermit Crab. When he is born, he is no bigger than a tiny pencil dot.



When you start life like that, the odds are not good. But...
What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math Adventure
AuthorJulie Ellis
ISBN1570911509
I first heard this story when a math teacher of mine read it to our whole class. i like this book so much because it is in relation to an actual store with how a math theorem works. It gives kids something to picture in their head when they hear Pythagoras’s Theorem. This text can help build your knowledge...
Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin
AuthorPam Calvert
ISBN1570918902
This book is a continuation of the King and Queen's life 10 years later and their son Peter is the main character. Rumpelstiltskin seeks revenge and returns to the castle to steal Peter and cause mayhem among the castle and the village. Rumpelstiltskin multiplies the king's nose by 6 and 4 branches by...
Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar
AuthorMasaichiro Anno
ISBN0698117530
"Superbly demonstrating the conception of factorials in mathematics, the text and pictures combine to present a lesson in a palatable form as well as the pleasure of looking at pictures that only Mitsumasa Anno could invent." — Publishers Weekly"The book moves logically and elegantly from the...
Family Math
AuthorJean Kerr Stenmark
ISBN0912511060
How can parents help their children with math at home? With over 300 pages of lively activities, the classic FAMILY MATH book represents one of the greatest strides taken to involve parents in the mathematics education of their children. Using easy instructions and simple objects such as beans, blocks,...
Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians, Volume 1
AuthorLuetta Reimer
ISBN0866515097
Ah but we're missing the subtitle! The full title is: Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians.

My parents are in that group of retired folk that go into public schools and read stories to children - of course, it helps that mom was a teacher for something...
Anno's Magic Seeds
AuthorMitsumasa Anno
ISBN0698116186
A man is given two magic seeds. He is told he can eat one, and it will sustain him all winter, and plant the other one, which will bear two more magic seeds. For several years he does so, and each year winds up with one seed to plant.
But then he gets smart. He decides to eat something else, and plants BOTH...
Columbus
AuthorIngri d'Aulaire
ISBN0385241062
It sort of pains me to only give this book 4 stars; it is really so good. (I am one of those people who either passionately loves a book or hates it. There is rarely an in between.)

These d'Aulaire books are GORGEOUSLY illustrated, and I feel like I am looking at a work of art as I flip through the pages....
Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens
AuthorCindy Neuschwander
ISBN1570917280
A clever introduction to place value.

Sir Cumference and Lady Di planned a surprise birthday party for King Arthur, but they didn’t expect so many guests to show up. How many lunches will they need? And with more guests arriving by the minute, what about dinner? Sir Cumference and Lady Di have...
12 Ways to Get to 11
AuthorEve Merriam
ISBN0689808925
Twelve witty double spreads take young readers on a counting adventure of adding to eleven.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 __ 12 What happened to 11?

Is it in the magician's hat? Maybe it's in the mailbox or hiding in the jack-o'-lantern? Don't forget to look in the barnyard where the hen awaits the arrival...
Math-terpieces: The Art of Problem-Solving
AuthorGreg Tang
ISBN0439443881
In his most ground-breaking book since THE BEST OF TIMES (Fall 2002), Greg Tang underscores the importance of four basic rules in problem-solving. Keeping an open mind, looking for unusual number combinations, using multiple skills (like subtracting to add) and looking for patterns, will guarantee...
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