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Article: True Love Is a Book // The Twelve Days of Christmas In Holiday Gifts for Children
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 26, 1995
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ON THE FIRST DAY of Christmas my true love put a curse on me - the
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (Viking, $16.99). Teacher
Mrs. Fibonacci declares everything in life can be a math problem.
How readers' heads will spin! How many flakes in a cereal bowl? How
many kids on the bus? How many rows of desks? How many pizzas and
apple pies are needed for lunch (fractions, ugh!)? In one year Babe
Ruth hit 29 home runs and earned $40,000, while the average
ballplayer today hits 15 home runs and makes $840,000 - who's the
better player? It's all there, wrapped up in one of cleverest - and
best-selling - volumes recently published. Smith's zany color
collages displays the emotional trauma ...