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This title in other editionsBlockhead: The Life of Fibonacciby Joseph D'agnese
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead. When Leonardo grew up and traveled the world, he was inspired by the numbers used in different countries. Then he realized that many things in nature, from the number of petals on a flower to the spiral of a nautilus shell, seem to follow a certain pattern. The boy who was once teased for being a blockhead had discovered what came to be known as the Fibonacci Sequence!
Blockhead is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. Review:"Math lover or not, readers should succumb to the charms of this highly entertaining biography of medieval mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci. 'You can call me Blockhead. Everyone else does,' opens the lighthearted narrative. As an adult, he works out a math problem that involves reproducing rabbits and discovers a pattern that repeats itself in nature, which becomes the sequence of numbers that now bears his name. Hence, his obsession is vindicated: 'All my life people had called me Blockhead because I daydreamed about numbers. But how could that be bad? Mother Nature loved numbers too!' D'Agnese's colloquial tone (King Frederick II calls Fibonacci a 'smart cookie') lures readers into the story and even invites them to ferret out patterns in the illustrations. Atop dappled backgrounds, O'Brien's delicate swirls and hatch marks echo the mathematical patterns — another graceful connection between math and the real world in which children live. Ages 6 — 9. Some familiar friends are back, along with fresh takes on favorite songs and nursery rhymes." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) About the AuthorJoseph DAgnese is a writer and journalist who lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Though he writes about the Middle Ages, he considers himself a Renaissance man. www.blockheadbook.com John OBrien is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and has illustrated many popular childrens books, including Did Dinosaurs Eat Pizza and This is Baseball. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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