By: JaNay Brown-Wood/ Illustrated by: Anastasia Magloire Williams

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Tyson es el ms joven y el ms pequeito de cuatro hermanos. Siempre est tratando de seguirles el ritmo. Pero cuando Swish, el gerbo de la familia, se pierde, Tyson es el que va al rescate! Tyson aplica lo que sabe sobre dobles, triples y tamao para planear de forma inteligente cmo encontrar a su mascota. Este cuento es una exploracin entretenida del razonamiento proporcional, presentando personajes afroamericanos e incluyendo una carta de la autora sobre la naturaleza ubicua de las matemticas.

Los libros de la serie Cuentos matemticos celebran las aventuras diarias de nios que usan las matemticas mientras juegan, construyen y descubren el mundo que los rodea. Historias divertidas y actividades prcticas facilitan que tanto los nios como los adultos exploren juntos las matemticas de la vida diaria. Fue desarrollada junto a expertos en el currculum STEM, pertenecientes a TERC Inc., organizacin sin fines de lucro, bajo una subvencin otorgada por Heising-Simons Foundation.

Tyson is the youngest-smaller than his four older brothers and always trying to keep up. But when the family’s pet gerbil, Swish, goes missing, it’s Tyson to the rescue! Tyson uses his knowledge of doubles, triples, and sizes to figure out a clever way to reach his beloved pet. A playful exploration of proportional thinking, featuring an author letter about the ubiquitous nature of math.

Storytelling Math celebrates children using math in their daily adventures as they play, build, and discover the world around them. Joyful stories and hands-on activities make it easy for kids and their grown-ups to explore everyday math together. Developed in collaboration with math experts at STEM education nonprofit TERC, under a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation.

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Author & Illustrator

JaNay Brown-Wood, author

JaNay Brown-Wood is an early childhood professor and the author of several books for children, includingShhh! The Baby’s AsleepandGrandma’s Tiny House. She also contributed to the poetry anthologyThanku: Poems of Gratitude. Much of JaNay’s work is intended to celebrate casual diversity, primarily featuring Black characters. JaNay lives in California.

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Anastasia Magloire Williams, illustrator

Anastasia Magloire Williams is a visual communicator who considers herself more of a storyteller than simply a designer or an artist. Using a unique blend of graphic, illustrative, and painterly illustration, she believes that “style” should always serve the story, or concept. She has a B.F.A in Illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and lives in Florida.

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Editorial Reviews

Kirkus Reviews

Tyson may be the smallest and youngest of five brothers, but his math skills make him a giant at saving the day when the family pet goes missing.

When playing basketball with his older brothers, Tyson struggles to keep up; his steps are smaller, and he quickly realizes that he has to take more of them to compensate. Nicknamed Lil Man, Tyson enjoys playing with and taking care of the familys pet gerbil, Swish, who is significantly smaller than him. When Swish escapes from his cage, his brothers take the lead on finding the little animal, while Tyson cleans and prepares the cage for his eventual return. When his brothers are unable to locate Swish, Tyson must consider, If I were Swish, where would I go? Turns out Swish is under the bed, just out of reach. Tyson uses the tubes from Swishs cage to lure the gerbil out, realizing that if he uses smaller tubes, hell need more of them to bridge the distance, and he ultimately rescues Swish. Brown-Wood has crafted an accessible and relatable narrative in which knowledge of proportional thinking helps solve a real-world problem. Williams fun, funky, colorful digital images of a loving Black family of boys complement the story well.

Reflects everyday Black boy joy with a mathematical twist.

Children’s Literature

Tyson has four older brothers. Being the youngest, Tyson is also the smallest. One day, he notices his best friend Swish, the familys pet gerbil, is missing. Tyson offers to help find Swish but his brothers say Dont worry about it, Lil Man and tell him they can do it on their own. Regardless, Tyson wants to help so he decides to look for Swish on his own. He begins by washing the long, medium, and short tubes from Swishs cage. As he is finishing, his brothers share that they have looked all over the house and cannot find the missing pet. Quickly, Tyson takes action. He searches for Swish in tight spaces. His small size comes in handy, enabling him to look in places around the house that his larger older brothers couldnt reach. Tyson crawls around like a gerbil, thinking about where he would go if he were Swish. Finally, he spots the pet in the far corner under a bed. He realizes he can use the tubes he washed earlier to build a long tunnel to lure out Swish. He grabs the two longest tubes for the tunnel, but one rolls off the bed out of his reach. Unfortunately, the other tubes are too short to reach Swish, so Tyson uses his math skills to connect two medium tubes and two short tubes, making one more long tube. Tyson finishes the tunnel, placing one end in front of Swish and holding an apple at the other end. Out crawls Swish! The older boys quickly realize that even though Tyson is small he can be a big help. This book shows readers how math can be used in day-to-day activities and promotes diversity by displaying that all children can do math. The story also encourages children to understand that they have valuable skills to offer, no matter their size.

Details

Bilingual Spanish Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-62354-215-3

Bilingual Spanish Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-62354-216-0

Ages:3-6
Page count:32
91/2 x 91/2

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