Blockhead Blog
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(And no—this peony does not display Fibonacci numbers!)
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People places things
Broccoli is mathematically delicious!
Pinecones display Fibonacci spirals, too!
Everyone says this is Leonardo—but it’s totally not!
REVIEWS OF BLOCKHEAD
"D’Agnese’s introduction to medieval Europe’s greatest mathematician offers both a coherent biographical account—spun, with some invented details, from very sketchy historical records—and the clearest explanation to date for younger readers of the numerical sequence that is found throughout nature and still bears his name."
—Booklist
* “The lively text includes touches of humor... O’Brien’s signature illustrations textured with thin lines re-create a medieval setting... [T]he book will be a boon to math teachers, homeschoolers and others piqued by the title.”
—Kirkus Reviews,
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“This lighthearted introducton to Fibonacci’s ideas will inspire young math lovers and perhaps point them toward more scholarly explorations.”
—School Library Journal
“Math lover or not, readers should succumb to the charms of this highly entertaining biography of medieval mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci... D’Agnese’s colloquial tone lures readers into the story and even invites them to ferret out patterns in the illustrations. Atop dappled backgrounds, O’Brien’s delicate swirls and hatch marks echo the mathematical pattern—another graceful connection between math and the real world in which children live.”
—Publishers Weekly
“[An] engaging, kid-friendly look at Fibonacci and his eponymous numerical sequence... The book has some clever tongue-in-check humor, and D’Agnese does a favor by clearly explaining Fibonacci’s breeding rabbits scenario... Throughout the book, O’Brien’s illustrations are textured with swirls and spirals—a whimsical homage to the man who discovered, as he believed, ‘the numbers Mother Nature uses to order the universe.’”
—Horn Book
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