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Author: Joseph D'Agnese
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 03/30/2010
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 11.26h x 8.88w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9780805063059
Audience: Ages 4-8
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.7
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 136583 / Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2010 pg. 73
Kirkus Review - Children 02/15/2010
Publishers Weekly 02/22/2010 pg. 64
School Library Journal 03/01/2010 pg. 138
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2010 pg. 105
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2010
New York Times Book Review 08/15/2010 pg. 13
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2010 - Superior,Well Above Average
Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci -- Joseph D'Agnese, Hardcover
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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.Author: Joseph D'Agnese
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 03/30/2010
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 11.26h x 8.88w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9780805063059
Audience: Ages 4-8
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.7
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 136583 / Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2010 pg. 73
Kirkus Review - Children 02/15/2010
Publishers Weekly 02/22/2010 pg. 64
School Library Journal 03/01/2010 pg. 138
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2010 pg. 105
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2010
New York Times Book Review 08/15/2010 pg. 13
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2010 - Superior,Well Above Average
About the Author
Joseph D'Agnese 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.
John O'Brien is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and has illustrated many popular children's books, including Did Dinosaurs Eat Pizza and This is Baseball.Product Tags:
Ages 4-8, Biography & Autobiography, Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction, Discoveries, Fibonacci numbers, Grades 1-3, Grades 4-6, Hardcover, Henry Holt & Company, John O'Brien, Joseph D'Agnese, Juvenile Nonfiction, Mathematics, Science & Nature, Science & TechnologyContact form
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