The Great Divide (What's the Difference?) - Softcover

Slade, Suzanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160718530X ISBN 13: 9781607185307

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Many animals, like people, enjoy spending time with their friends and family. Many groups of animals have their own unique names. Did you know a group of gorillas is a called a band? And a bunch of billy goats is a tribe? Following in the footsteps of Multiply on the Fly (multiplication), What's New at the Zoo? (addition) and What's the Difference? (subtraction), this rhythmic, fun-to-read-aloud book introduces children to division as they conquer bands, tribes, mobs and more.

About this title

Review:

Slade uses an appealing formula to simultaneously teach readers about both animal collective nouns and division. Rhyming word problems followed by numerical equations introduce animal groups, including a -charm- of hummingbirds, a -crash- of rhinos, and a -tribe- of billy goats. - Publishers Weekly

Because this beautifully illustrated book uses the groups and numbers in the text to teach division, a teacher could use it as a picture book or to engage children in these mathematical concepts. - Library Media Connection

On each spread of this clever picture book, a rhyming verse introduces the collective noun for a particular type of animal and then asks readers to determine how many creatures would be in each -bale,- -mob,- etc., if the group were divided into smaller numbers. - School Library Journal

About the Author:

As both a children's book and scientific illustrator, Erin Hunter specializes in entomological and botanical illustrations. She illustrated A Day in the Deep, The Great Divide, Multiply on the Fly, and for Arbordale, and she has taught botanical illustration and field sketching at University of California at Santa Cruz. Erin's portfolio includes print and online design projects for clients ranging from marketing firms to culinary groups to educational organizations-and she's drawn insects under a microscope for the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History. Erin lives with her husband on California's Monterey Peninsula. When she's not sketching and painting, she tends to flowers, fruit trees, and vegetables in her backyard garden. Visit Erin's website: http: //www.eehunter.com/

About this edition

• Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 160718530X
• ISBN 13: 9781607185307
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Hunter Erin E