New Releases by Stuart J Murphy

A visual-learning expert races up the charts and graphs math success with kid-friendly content sure to help with homework. Want to find the most popular meal in the cafeteria? Compare town sports enrollments? Or maybe you just want to know who burps the most in your family! Learn what line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts, and pictographs are and how and when to use them to represent data. Each project shows how to build a chart or graph and ties it all together with a creative infographic that really puts the A in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, ARTS, and Mathematics). Whether used as an introductory aid or to underscore previous knowledge, the book prepares today''s visually savvy children to succeed in school and life by analyzing the world around them.

Have your youngsters ever struggled to follow directions? It''s so easy to get distracted or carried away! This I See I Learn® book uses easy-to-follow diagrams, helpful pop-out tips, and a warm, cheerful story to introduce basic listening and comprehension skills. Percy likes to play so much he sometimes forgets to listen. With the help of his parents and teachers, Percy learns how to listen to understand directions, learn new things, be safe, and have more fun. Part of the sixteen book I SEE I LEARN® series for happier, healthier, more confident children!

Para que los ni¤os sean m s felices, saludables y seguros de s¡ mismos The adventures of Stuart J. Murphy''s gang of preschoolers in Spanish. Young readers discover essential life skills that are important for school readiness and daily life. Freda''s mom says that she can invite her friends to a picnic in her backyard. There is so much to do, from packing the picnic basket to cleaning up. Will Freda''s plan be a success?

Para que los niños sean más felices, saludables y seguros de sí mismos. A Percy le encanta ir al parque. Juega en los columpios, en el tobogán, en las barras y en el arenero. Pero, ¿qué sucede cuando Percy no juega con cuidado? Young readers can now enjoy Stuart J . Murphy''s adventures in Spanish. When Percy plays at the park, he''s a monster! Roaring and growling, he climbs up the slide, stomps in the sandbox, and jumps off the swing. Will he ever learn how to be a safe monster? Part of the sixteen book I SEE I LEARN® series for happier, healthier, more confident children!

After playing boisterously at the playground, Percy learns how to keep himself and his friends safe and still have a good time. Includes questions about the text and a note to parents about visual learning.

Perry the Penguin needs 9 clams to buy an ice scooter -- but he''s not very good at saving. As Perry earns, spends, finds, loses, and borrows clams, a simple line graph demonstrates the concept of negative numbers.

Introduces new readers to the concept of nonstandard measurement as three friends--Laura, Juan, and Sarah--compete in a sand castle building contest and measure their castles with spoons, shovels, and bare feet. Simultaneous.

Let''s Fly a KiteWhen Bob and Hannah split something, the two pieces had better be symmetrical--exactly the same. BUt to fly their kite, they''ll have to learn something new--cooperation!

Stuart J. Murphy travels all over the United States talking to thousands of kids. And you''ll never believe what they talk about: MATH! Stuart shows kids that they use math every day -- to share a pizza, spend their allowance, and even sort socks. Stuart writes funny stories about math -- and if you read his books, you''ll start to see the fun in math, too.Most classrooms celebrate 100 days of school. But for Mrs. Lopez''s class, it''s 100 days of cool! Something new and cool is bound to happen every day, all the way from 1 to 100.

Scream down the Dare-Devil Coaster and whirl around in the Twin Spin cars! Join in the carnival fun as 11 friends divide up to fit on the 2-to-a-seat roller coaster and the 4-to-a-cup teacups ride. Making new friends and practicing predivision skills have never been so exciting!

Shopping, counting, and a birthday present all add up to a surprise ending on Mall Mania Day! A lighthearted look at addition strategies

Jack stacks up blocks high. Two make a robot, five make a boat, and fifteen make...whatever you can imagine! Math becomes child''s play as young readers are introduced to the skill of counting on, a first step toward mastering addition.

Hankie always does the same things at the same time. He even sneezes on schedule. The other horses tease him. What a bore! Hankie''s determined to prove that he can be unpredictable if he wants to -- but can he? Or will he just end up being the same old Hankie? Horses, humor, and a great big sneeze all combine to explain how to look at past events and make predictions about the future, an important element of logical thinking.

We need the speed! The hamster champs have a brand-new stunt, and this time there''s a lot at stake. If the stunt works out perfectly, they won''t get eaten by Hector the cat. But if things go wrong -- watch out! Three daredevil hamsters, a few alphabet blocks, a board, and a protractor show how to measure angles -- and how to escape a hungry cat!

It''s almost time for the show to begin -- but where are all the lizards? As a frantic snake looks high and low for the performers, they start to arrive, first by fives and then by tens. Will all fifty lizards show up in time? A lively rhymed story and pictures bursting with color introduce the math concept of counting by fives and tens, an important first step in learning addition and multiplication.

Is your age more than 5? Is it less than 10? Eddie''s got to guess. And he doesn''t want to be wrong! Eddie has a booth at the school fair, guessing people''s ages. He hasn''t guessed wrong yet, but if he does, he gets dunked. Can Eddie keep guessing right -- and keep from getting wet? Comparing whole numbers and understanding what''s more and what''s less are a big part of Eddie''s strategy, and an important math skill for young readers to learn.

Polly''s got a pen pal ... in Canada! Polly''s sure that she and her new friend, Ally, will have a lot in common. When Ally writes that she''s 125 centimeters tall and weighs 25 kilograms, Polly wants to know if she''s the same. Polly wishes she could go and visit her -- but Ally lives 450 kilometers away! Young readers will learn about metric units like centimeters, kilograms, kilometers, and liters as they follow this story of two friends who can''t be kept apart.

At a school picnic, Eddie uses his knowledge of numbers to outsmart the people who come to his game booth.

Explains place value to developing a grasp of large numbers.

Maddie''s room is a mess. Maddie''s toys are everywhere. And Maddie has to clean them up before her birthday party starts. This looks like a job for ... MIGHTY MADDIE! Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a vacuum cleaner, Mighty Maddie, the room-cleaning superhero, gives readers a playful lesson about the difference between light and heavy.

On a car trip to the beach, the O''Malley family children compete by playing games together.

Poor tiny Birdie has no house. But Birdie does have friends. Spike, Queenie, Goldie, and Fidget want to help Birdie find a house of his own. Birdie needs a house that isn''t too tall and isn''t too thin, that isn''t too short and isn''t too fat, and that isn''t too wide and isn''t too narrow. Will they find a house for Birdie before the rain falls and the wind blows? A sweet and simple story about helping out a friend explains the math concept of capacity -- what will fit in a container of a particular shape and size.

Clever Coyote thinks it''s time for lunch –– and also time to show her friends how, with some simple rounding, she can add up numbers in her head. If only she were as good at hunting as she is at math!

We''re missing all our buttons! Three firefighters scramble to find 3 sets of matching buttons before the big parade starts. A lively introduction to the simple math concept of sorting by attributes.

It''s the last week of Camp Grizzly, and the campers are preparing to elect a mascot. Each day the Grizzly Gazette takes a poll to see who has the biggest percentage of the vote so far. Is it Sophie? Is it Daniel? Or could it be Corey, the new entry in the race? Corey''s determined to do her best. But she''s got to make up for lost time. Can she win out over Daniel and Sophie? No one will know for sure until the last vote is counted! A lively story about summer camp fun will help young readers understand both percentage and voting!

It''s 4 tickets for the Treetop Coaster! Just 2 for the Elephant Twirl! five cousins each have 20 tickets to spend at Safari, and a little algebra will tell them how many rides they can try. But who will dare the death-defying Terrible Tarantula?

It''s a long way around Perimeter Path! Mike''s brother and sister say he''s too young to compete in the 15-kilometer bike race. But if Mike just gets a chance, he knows he can make it all the way around.

Lets Make a Deal! Mike and his little brother, Andy, are headed for the Dinosaur Card Trading Fair. They''re ready to wheel and deal. It''s, 4 Stegosaurus for 1 Triceratops, and 2 Triceratops for 1 Allosaurus. But can they get what they really want: the tremendous, gigantic, ferocious, Tyrannosaurus rex? The math concept of equivalency -- understanding when values are equal -- is introduced in this fast-paced story as two brothers try to beat the clock and make the ultimate trade.

Missing Mittens Every animal on Farmer Bill''s farm is missing one mitten. Readers can investigate odd and even numbers as they unravel this mitten mystery!