What Is a Triangle? (Growing Tree) - Hardcover

Ferrari, Maria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0694013927 ISBN 13: 9780694013920

Publisher: HarperFestival, 2000

Synopsis

A rhyming, rolling text and clear, stunning photographs lead children through a variety of triangles, from candy corn to an ice-cream cone. By the creators of What Is Round? BOMC.

About this title

About the Author:

Rebecca Kai Dotlich is a respected children's poet and the author of a number of poetry collections, including Lemonade Sun. She wrote What Is Round? and What Is Square? photographed by Maria Ferrari. She lives in Indiana.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Like its companions, What Is Round and What Is Square (both HarperCollins, 1999), this book features a rhyming text ac-companied by colorful photos of common objects set against bright backgrounds. The roof of a house made with blocks, a wedge of cheese, and a toy boat's sail are clear examples of triangles for toddlers. Issues arise, though, when pizza slices with curved edges, a birthday hat, and an ice-cream cone are also presented as triangles. While all of these shapes can be considered "triangular," they are not, in fact, triangles. Young children who learn to call them all triangles will have some unlearning to do when they begin to study geometry. Better to give them blocks to hold as they learn the names of shapes than a book that is not mathematically sound.
Ellen Heath, Orchard School, Ridgewood, NJ
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperFestival
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0694013927
• ISBN 13: 9780694013920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Dotlich Rebecca Kai