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Lynn: Talk about a dream team!  Caldecott winning illustrator Beth Krommes teams up again with Joyce Sidman, winner of three Newbery Honor medals in the exquisite Swirl By Swirl:  Spirals in Nature (Houghton 2011).  The result is just what you would expect – another brilliantly crafted book.  This time the subject is the ” spiral: [...]

Lynn: I am sad to report that I am horrible at math – so horrible that the thought of anything even vaguely math-related is enough to make me break out in a cold sweat!  So the fact that I am writing about a book that has the word “equation” in the title should be a [...]

Lynn: There is an irritating new rule about new book reserves at my public library.  Well, that is another story but because of that it sometimes it takes me a while to get my hands on a book and that is the case with Mindblind (Marshall Cavendish 2010)  I wanted to read this since I [...]

Cindy: We have a tradition in our house of trying to remember to say, “Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit,” on the first of each month to have good luck for the month. It is based on a British superstition that has many variations (gotta love Wikipedia). The friend who taught it to me years ago said it [...]

Cindy: Thaddeus K. Fong is NOT amused to have a new baby sister. “My mother’s womb is a Trojan horse, I tell you.” Like many older siblings, he is resentful of the attention given to the slobbering baby whose only vocabulary is “ga.” When his math teacher explains prime numbers to Thaddeus’s advanced third grade [...]