

Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Pinczes and published by HMH Books for Young Readers / Open Road Integrated Media. Rendered in dusty blues and pasture-green with warm yellow, red and pink accents, her linocut-style art vibrates with energy. One Hundred Hungry Ants is written by Elinor J.

One Hundred Hungry Ants is a smart little story for children ages 4-8. MacKain even ensures that the same beetle characters-one with a pointy nose, two wearing glasses, etc.-appear in every spread, allowing readers to play spot-the-bug. One Hundred Hungry Ants is a smart little story for children ages 4-8. And lest squadron-like precision trouble readers, each big-eyed ``bug-soldier'' has a unique patterned shell. Rather than endorse conformity, this rhyming tale focuses on Joe's search for a solution. The unfortunate Joe has to stand aside rather than be a ``remainder'' on the days that follow, Joe tries dividing the squadron into symmetrical rows of three, then four and, finally, five, when he is at last accommodated. Their blue bug queen ``likes things tidy,'' and when the bugs march two by two, she notices that one bug brings up the rear. Keeping to the insect theme, Pinczes introduces the ``25th Army Corps,'' a regiment of 25 beetles on parade. One Hundred Hungry Ants is not only a spirited and whimsical picture book story, it also serves as a fun visual introduction to math.Hi dee ho Its off to a picnic.

As they did in One Hundred Hungry Ants, Pinczes and MacKain apply numerical division to a practical problem-and explain it in an entertaining, visually emphatic way. Buy a cheap copy of One Hundred Hungry Ants book by Elinor J.
