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Camille is determined to rake her own pile of leaves -- all the way up to her knees! She swishes leaves to and fro, watching her pile grow bigger alongside the piles made by Daddy and her little brother, Jayden. WHOOSH! After raking leaves to the top of her boots, a giant breeze blows the pile back down to her ankles. But Camille won't be stopped until she gets the job done--a knee-high pile, the perfect size for . . . jumping in! Leaves to My Knees is a playful introduction to the early math concepts of size comparison and measurement. A note by researcher and mathematics learning expert Marlene Kliman explains how parents and caregivers can use the book to help young children explore different sizes and measurement in everyday environments.
About the Author
Ellen Mayer is a children's book author and early literacy educator who works with diverse families and young children. For many years she was a researcher at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She is also a brand-new grandma!Ellen creates picture books for young children - and the grown-ups who read to them. Her Small Talk Books® picture book collection, published by Star Bright Books, is fun for little ones and also helps adults learn ways to build the language of babies and young children through conversation during everyday small moments together. The most recent books, created with the Storytelling Math project at the nonprofit STEM education organization TERC, also help adults enrich young children's understanding of how math is part of daily life. BANANA FOR TWO is full of playful conversation about amounts of one and two; CLEAN UP, UP, UP! focuses on spatial relations.Ellen has also collaborated with the award-winning South African author Sindiwe Magona, to write a book for middle grade readers, BOOKS AND BRICKS: How a School Rebuilt the Community.Visit Ellen at www.ellenmayerbooks.com or @ellenmayerbooks on twitter.
