July 15, 2010

When: Thursday, July 15th, 2010, 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm
Where: Blackberry Books, Net Loft Building, Granville Island, Vancouver
What: Author visit and show

Kari-Lynn Winters, author of aRHYTHMetic, When Chickens Fly and On My Walk with Tiffany Stone, author of aRHYTHMetic, Floyd the Flamingo and Baaaad Animals.

Ideal for home or classroom use, these rollicking rhymes explore basic concepts of arithmetic in new and engaging ways. Catch the mathematical beat with the title poem, “aRHYTHMetic.” Learn about ordinal numbers from a bison that loves being “Third in the Herd.” Discover “The Shape of Things” all around us. Roundup “Rot-TEN Dragons” into groups from ten to one hundred. And help “Princess Estimation” guess the number of spots on her new Dalmatian. These seven math poems by Tiffany Stone, Kari-Lynn Winters and Lori Sherritt-Fleming, illustrated playfully in full colour by Scot Ritchie, are guaranteed to equal fun that will bounce you right out of your seat!