By: Art Coulson/ Illustrated by:Madelyn Goodnight

No caban todas.

Bo quiere encontrar el recipiente perfecto para mostrar sus canicas tradicionales en la Fiesta Nacional Cheroqui. El recipiente debe tener el tamao justo: lo suficientemente grande como para que quepan todas las canicas y lo suficientemente pequeo como para caber en el puesto de venta que su familia tendr en el festival cheroqui. Adems debe ser bonito! Con la ayuda de su abuela, Bo encuentra lo que necesita. Este cuento es una exploracin divertida sobre los conceptos de capacidad y volumen, que incluye personajes nativos americanos y un glosario de palabras cheroquis.

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.

Bo wants to find the perfect container to show off his traditional marbles for Cherokee National Holiday. It needs to be just the right size: big enough to fit all the marbles, but not too big to fit in his family’s booth at the festival. And it needs to look good! With his grandmother’s help, Bo tries many containers until he finds just the right one.

This installation in the Storytelling Math series playfully explores volume and capacity, featuring Native characters and a glossary of Cherokee words.

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Author & Illustrator

Art Coulson, author

Art Coulson is Cherokee from Oklahoma and comes from a family of storytellers. Some of his earliest memories are of listening to stories and reading books on his grandmother’s lap. Art now writes his own books for young readers, including Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army. He lives with his family in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Madelyn Goodnight, illustrator

Madelyn Goodnight is a member of the Chickasaw Nation whose work reflects her love of childhood. She holds a degree from Rhode Island School of design and lives in Oklahoma. She is the illustrator of The Pear Tree.

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Awards & Honors

• NSTA-CBC Best STEM Books
• American Indians in Children’s Literature Best of 2021

Editorial Reviews

Kirkus Reviews

Through investigation, Bo discovers the perfect container to display his marble collection at the Cherokee National Holiday festival. For months, Bo has worked hard on painting round stones to make homemade marbles. He is finally old enough to sell them at his familys craft booth. His grandma, Elisi, says there is only so much space at the table so he will need to find something to hold the marbles. She sends him to look around. Just dont make a big ol mess! Bo hunts through the boxes in his room, but nothing is big enough. When he finds a large tray, Elisi says, Tla.Our booth is small. Your container needs to fit on this mat. Bo carries the mat around the house, experimenting with containers of different shapes and sizes. He dumps out the contents of a ribbon box, a tool crate, and a tall vase, but nothing works. He is about to give up and ask for help when he empties the contents of a basket. His marbles fit perfectly! Elisis house is a mess, but Bo has found just the right container to show and sell his homemade marbles. Incorporating snatches of Cherokee, Coulsons (Cherokee) tale conveys the challenges of estimating volume even as it develops three-dimensional characters and their affectionate relationship. Goodnights (Chickasaw) illustrations are lively and full of details specific to Cherokee culture. This fun, math-inspired story will empower children to keep trying until they succeed.

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Everybody seeking math books for kids should invest in the Storytelling Math series. Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi! is one entry in the series, introducing spatial concepts like volume and area in the tale of a Cherokee boy named Bo determining how to show off his traditional marbles for the Cherokee National Holiday. The book incorporates Cherokee words while it also demonstrates the kind of mathematical thinking kids can do in their own lives. Other entries in the series investigate concepts like division, estimation, measurement, and more.

Downloadables

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Details

Spanish Bilingual Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-62354-219-1

Spanish Bilingual Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-62354-220-7

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

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