Unwrapping
Authored by Ellen Mayer
Illustrated by Ying-Hwa Hu
* Ages: 1-3
* Grade Level: PS
* Series: Small Talk Books
* Publisher: Star Bright Books
* Pub. Date: Sept. 14, 2018
Unwrapping some great illustrations for you
About the book
A loving daddy and his little one, through everyday conversation, explore spatial relationships as they relate to his little one's world.
It's tidy up time and as Daddy helps his tot clean up, up, up he introduces his toddler to math words and phrases: books go up on the top shelf, stuffed bears go back inside their house for a nap, and a rogue caboose that is stuck back behind a chair needs to go under the bed where it belongs. After all that hard work it's time to wash up up up for dinner and eat Mommy's great cooking. Up, up, up goes the spoon many, many times causing the corner of everyone's mouth to do the same. Yum! Delicious!
This book includes a note from early childhood education expert Susan C. Levine that shows parents and caregivers how everyday activities offer rich opportunities to teach early spatial math concepts. This book is based on work supported in part by TERC under a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation.
Storywraps Rating - 5 Hugs!!!!!
Meet the author
Ellen Mayer is a children’s book author and early literacy educator who works with diverse families and young children. For many years she was a researcher at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She is also a brand-new grandma!
Ellen creates picture books for young children - and the grown-ups who read to them. Her Small Talk Books® picture book collection, published by Star Bright Books, is fun for little ones and also helps adults learn ways to build the language of babies and young children through conversation during everyday small moments together. The most recent books, created with the Storytelling Math project at the nonprofit STEM education organization TERC, also help adults enrich young children’s understanding of how math is part of daily life. BANANA FOR TWO is full of playful conversation about amounts of one and two; CLEAN UP, UP, UP! focuses on spatial relations.
Ellen has also collaborated with the award-winning South African author Sindiwe Magona, to write a book for middle grade readers, BOOKS AND BRICKS: How a School Rebuilt the Community.
Visit Ellen at www.ellenmayerbooks.com
or @ellenmayerbooks on twitter.
About the illustrator
Ying-Hwa grew up loving to draw. She has illustrated 30 books, many of which she illustrated together with her husband Cornelius Van Wright. ( it made sense to Ying-Hwa that she should marry someone who also loves to draw).
Ying-Hwa lives in New York City. She has two children. Her daughter Rebecca is the writer of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff". (Star Bright Books) which Ying-Hwa illustrated. She is always coming up with fun new illustrations!
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