Of Numbers and Stars: The Story of Hypatia
10 best books like Of Numbers and Stars: The Story of Hypatia (D. Anne Love): The Golden Goblet, The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps, Snowmen at Night, The Egyptian Cinderella, The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq, Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor, Hush! A Thai Lullaby, Mummies Made in Egypt, What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math Adventure, Tutankhamen's Gift
| Author | Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
I really liked this book when I was 11, and I really liked this book twenty-one years later. Somehow Eloise Jarvis McGraw makes Ranofer, the main character, easily relatable without turning him into a kid that thinks, talks and acts like a twentieth century American kid who happens to be living in ancient...
The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps
| Author | Jeanette Winter |
| ISBN | 0375867740 |
Acclaimed picture book biographer Jeanette Winter has found her perfect subject: Jane Goodall, the great observer of chimpanzees. Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania, invited by brilliant scientist Louis...
| Author | Caralyn Buehner |
| ISBN | 0803725507 |
Have you ever built a snowman and discovered the next day that his grin has gotten a little crooked, or his tree-branch arms have moved? And you've wondered . . . what do snowmen do at night? This delightful wintertime tale reveals all! Caralyn Buehner's witty, imaginative verse offers many amusing details...
| Author | Shirley Climo |
| ISBN | 0064432793 |
"Climo has woven this ancient tale, a mixture of fact and myth, with clarity and eloquence. The beauty of the language is set off to perfection by Heller's arresting illustrations. A stunning combination of fluent prose and exquisitely wrought illustrations that makes] a winner for story hours, as...
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
| Author | Jeanette Winter |
| ISBN | 0152054456 |
"In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammad was 'Read.'"*
--Alia Muhammad Baker
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along...
| Author | Robert Burleigh |
| ISBN | 1481416006 |
Filled with gorgeous illustrations by acclaimed artist Raúl Colón, this illustrated biography shares the story of female scientist, Marie Tharp, a pioneering woman scientist and the first person to ever successfully map the ocean floor.
Marie Tharp was always fascinated by the ocean....
| Author | Minfong Ho |
| ISBN | 0531071669 |
This is a rhyming lullaby. A mother is quieting all the animals around her while her baby is wide awake. It has a lovely rhythm to it. It is quieting for bed for younger kids. Older kids just tend to roll their eyes at this, I observed.
This might sound weird, but my favorite food in the world, and I...
| Author | Aliki |
| ISBN | 0064460118 |
Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki Brandenberg describes and illustrates the techniques and reasons for the use of mummification in ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptians believed that when someone died they would live in their tombs on earth but travel to live with gods and goddesses in another world.
The...
| Author | Julie Ellis |
| ISBN | 1570911509 |
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...
| Author | Robert Sabuda |
| ISBN | 0689817304 |
Small and frail, Tutankhamen was an all but ignored member of the royal family of the great Egyptian pharoah Amenhotep III. At the school of the "menoi," or tutors, he did not excel at physical activities with the other royal princes. Keeping to himself, he observed and admired the work of his father's...
To a child, the future is a magnificent dream. For Jean-Francois Champollion, the dream was to sail up the Nile in Egypt and uncover the secrets of the past. In 1802, when Champollion was eleven years old, he vowed to be the first person to read Egypt's ancient hieroglyphs. He faced great challenges over...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0316515264 |
A perfect introduction to mathematical concepts for young readers, written by a Newbery honor-winning author!
This colorfully illustrated biography of the Greek philosopher and scientist Eratosthenes, who compiled the first geography book and accurately measured the globe's circumference,...
The Day of Ahmed's Secret
| Author | Florence H. Parry |
| ISBN | 0688140238 |
The Day of Ahmed's Secret
As young Ahmed delivers butane gas to customers all over the city of Cairo, he thinks, I have a secret. All day long, as he maneuvers his donkey cart through streets crowded with cars and camels, down alleys filled with merchants' stalls, and past buildings a thousand...
