Missing Math: A Number Mystery

Product Description In Missing Math, the numbers all over town suddenly disappear. The animals can’t count, use the phone, or even find out what time it is. Rulers, money, and computers have all become completely useless...Can the town’s detective solve this numerical mystery? Will he ever bring the numbers back home again? Loreen Leedy’s clever rhyming text PLUS her amusing digitally painted illustrations EQUALS proof that we need math each and every day. Review When a town's numbers suddenly disappear, the townsfolk are more than puzzled—they are stuck! Without numbers, everyday life is impossible.... —Children's Literature ...Money has no value, and the questions and confusions about postage, addresses, calendars, time, age, library-book due dates, telephone numbers, computers, calculators, heights, and weights grow. —School Library Journal When a town's numbers suddenly disappear, the residents discover how much they depend on numerals in their everyday lives. A detective investigates the mystery, hoping to restore numbers to their proper places on chalkboards, scoreboards, rulers, TV remotes, speed-limit signs, clocks, calendars, cookbooks, calculators, and computers, to name a few. After the detective solves the case, the dials on the thief's patent-pending number vacuum reverse the machine's flow and the numbers return to the rightful places. Teeming with action and details, the large-scale, digitally painted illustrations feature zany, dressed-animal characters. While the scenes are busy with action and detail, they offers bits of comic byplay that will keep children engaged in the story, which is told in rhymed couplets. From the author/illustrator of Subtraction Action (2000) and It's Probably Penny (2007), here's another colorful picture book with ties to the math curriculum. —Booklist, April 1, 2008 About the Author Loreen Leedy writes and illustrates books in her studio in central Florida. When not writing, drawing, or painting on her computer, she's exercising, eating out, or going to the movies with her husband Andrew Schuerger. Her other books include the following: Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story Missing Math: A Number Mystery The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day Fraction Action There's a Frog in My Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me Her web site is LoreenLeedy.com.