The Big Buck Adventure
- Paperback
32 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2014
Summary
One little girl and one very big dollar set out on a great adventure at the store.However, what seems like a pleasant afternoon of shopping soon turns perplexing as the challenge of her buying options becomes overwhelming. She doesn’t know what to do. There are so many choices, but she only has one buck. A fun and perfect example of how we use math in our daily lives.“This sprightly rhyming excursion into buying power puts lie to the notion that economics is by nature a dreary topic.” -Kirkus Reviews
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780881062953 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0881062952 |
| Author: | Shelley Gill, Deborah Tobola, Grace Lin |
| Publisher: | Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 279mm x 217mm x 4mm |
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Critics Review
This sprightly rhyming excursion into buying power puts lie to the notion that economics is by nature a dreary topic.
When the first-person narrator is given a raise in allowance, visions of new perchases fill her head. As she shops the store’s candy, toy, deli, and pet departments, she is overwhelmed by the multiplicity of deals offered by eager merchants—ample opportunity to figureo ut the best deal mathematically. “A penny for your thoughts,” says one merchant as the girl opts for something really unusual—to spend not a cent, and to tuck her money into a bank at home, but only after a nicely turned pitch of her own: “Why you can have one hundred/of my thoughts for a dollar!/Ten thoughts for a dime,/five for a nickel/twenty-five thoughts/for a sour dill pickle.” If the value of money is in its possibilities, rather than its purchases, readers, too, will be relieved when the girl leaves the store. Lin’s illustrations make the mayhem memorable in an easy book to pair with Scieszka and Smith’s Math Curse.
—Kirkus Reviews
About The Author
Shelley Gill
Author, adventurer, whale detective, pony wrangler, dog musher and all around fun hog, Shelley Gill lives her books! Shelley is the author of several children’s books, including ALASKA, HAWAI’I, and SITKA ROSE. She was previously an editor at Alaska Woman magazine, and also worked as a reporter, editor, and publisher for the Frontiersman and Valley Sun newspapers in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. Shelley lives with her family on a ridge above Kachemak Bay in Homer, Alaska.
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