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Author/Illustrator: Trisha Speed Shaskan/Francesca Carabelli

Publisher/Place of Publication/Date: Picture Window Books; Mankato, MN; 2009

Price: $19.99

ISBN-13: 978-1-40484-784-2
ISBN-10: 1-40484-784-7

Dewey: 513.2

Reading Level: 3.4

Brief Description of Content: Colorful illustrations show how addition is used in a variety of situations.

Personal Review/Selection rationale: Part of a well-reviewed series, this book will be helpful to our kindergarten teachers in their teaching of addition. It would be useful as an addition to their classroom libraries to be used as a read aloud.

Review Sources:
A review of this and/or other books in this series can be found here.

Standards:
MKN2. Students will use representations to model addition and subtraction.
a. Use counting strategies to find out how many items are in two sets when they are combined, separated, or compared.
b. Build number combination up to 10 (e.g., 4 and 1, 2 and 3, 3 and 2, 4 and 1 for five) and for doubles to 10 (3 and 3 for six).
c. Use objects, pictures, numbers, or words to create, solve and explain story problems (combining, separating, or comparing) for two numbers that are each less than 10.
M1N3. Students will add and subtract numbers less than 100, as well as understand
and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction.
M2N2. Students will build fluency with multi-digit addition and subtraction.