Bathtime Mathtime: Shapes
Bathtime Mathtime: Shapes
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Crown Publishers, Inc.
Annotation: Learn at home with help from The Wonder Years/Hallmark actress, math whiz, and New York Times bestselling author Danica ... more
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #567202
Format: Board Book
Special Formats: Board Book Board Book
Copyright Date: 2019
Edition Date: 2019 Release Date: 11/12/19
Illustrator: Padron, Alicia,
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: 1-10-193396-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-10-193396-1
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2018965538
Dimensions: 19 x 24 cm.
Language: English
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Kirkus Reviews

Pictures of objects on the front and outlines of shapes on the back of sturdy tabs invite precocious toddlers to open the pages.Within, four-line rhyming verses that incorporate the titular refrain include a question and hint about an object, usually but not always bath-related, with that shape. Four common shapes—circle, square, triangle and rectangle—begin, respectively paired with "mommy's pretty ring," a washcloth, the sail on a toy boat, and a bath towel. From this concrete beginning the concepts grow abruptly more abstract. A charming double-page illustration of the toddler protagonist sitting amid shapes floating in the bathtub accompanies the vague text: "What shapes can the water make? / A heart or star? An oval lake? / Water changes shape—it's flowing. / Bathtime Mathtime, let's keep going!" Then one spread and 10 lines of text describe 3-D objects: sphere (a ball), cylinder (a shampoo bottle—notably, not depicted as a cylinder), and cube (blocks). The next spread just shows the light-skinned, pigtailed child splashing in the tub. The note to parents at the end claims that the book will show that bathtime "(including hair washing!)" can be fun, but nowhere in the story are the child's pigtails taken down, much less shampooed. A final rebus provides a review and hurriedly introduces cone and pyramid shapes.This well-meaning math concept book sinks under the weight of too much information, unevenly conveyed—a washout. (Board book. 2-4)

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Reading Level: 1.0
Interest Level: P-K
Lexile: AD340L
Guided Reading Level: K
Fountas & Pinnell: K

Learn at home with help from The Wonder Years/Hallmark actress, math whiz, and New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar using her acclaimed McKellar Math books! Bathtime will be squeaky clean and sneaky smart in this follow-up to Bathtime Mathtime that gives your toddler a head start on learning their shapes, all as a part of your daily at-home routine!

Bathtime, Mathtime 1, 2, 3. Want to find some shapes with me?

Shapes are all around us--just scrub up and see!

Danica McKellar uses her proven math success to give toddlers a head start on learning their shapes in this squeaky-clean bathtime read-aloud that shapes up to be a tubful of math fun!


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