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Written by Betsy Franco
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It's easy to count three of something-- just add them up. But how do you count zero, a number that is best defined by what it's not?Can you see it?
Can you hear it?
Can you feel it?
This important math concept is beautifully explored in a way that will inspire children to find zero everywhere--from the branches of a tree by day to the vast, starry sky by night.
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Zero is...the shape of an egg.
Zero is a number.
Zero is . . .
the balls in the bin at recess time.
0 balls
Zero is . . .
the leaves on the bare,
brown arms of the oak tree.
0 leaves
Excerpted from Zero Is The Leaves On The Tree by Betsy Franco; Illustrated by Shino Arihara. Copyright © 2009 by Betsy Franco. Excerpted by permission of Tricycle Press, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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Picture books about numbers typically go from one up to 10. The idea of zero may be a bit more abstract, but this picture book communicates the concept in child-friendly terms: “Zero is . . . the balls in the bin at recess time. 0 balls,” or “. . . the sound of snowflakes landing on your mitten. 0 sounds,” or “the kites in the sky once the wind stops blowing. 0 kites.”...Nicely composed and often quiet in tone, Arihara’s gouache paintings illustrate those images with sensitivity.—Booklist magazineHow exactly do you define zero? Franco’s thought-provoking meditations challenge readers to move beyond conventional school-taught facts (it’s a number; it’s egg-shaped) to poetic observations about zero outside the classroom via a tour of the seasons....Cleverly upending the notion that zero amounts to nothing, the book reveals instead that zero is an absence that is observable, countable, and meaningful. —The Horn Book Review
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- Zero Is The Leaves On The Tree by Betsy Franco; Illustrated by Shino Arihara
- September 08, 2009
- Poetry; Mathematics - Arithmetic
- Tricycle Press
- $15.99
- 9781582462493
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