Ten Magic Butterflies

by Danica McKellar Narrated by Danica McKellar

Overview

Learn at home with help from The Wonder Years/Hallmark actress, math whiz, and New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar using her acclaimed McKellar Math books! Fairies, butterflies, and magic help to make this math-focused picture book positively enchanting! 

Join ten flower friends for a night of excitement that mixes a little math with a lot of magic. As each flower turns into a butterfly, children will discover different ways to group numbers to create ten, an essential building block of math, all while watching each flower's dream come true. (And keep an eye out for the adorable caterpillar who wishes he could fly, too!)

In this, the second book in the McKellar Math line, actress, math whiz, and New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar once again sneaks in secret addition and subtraction concepts to help make your child smarter and uses her proven math success to show children that loving numbers is as easy as a wave of a wand and a BING BANG BOO! 

"[Danica McKellar's] bringing her love of numbers to children everywhere." --Brightly on Goodnight, Numbers

"Danica McKellar is now on a mission to make math fun for even the youngest of kids." --L.A. Parent Magazine

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Parents may find this backyard fantasy a useful way to jump-start their children’s interest in math."
—Publishers Weekly


Praise for Danica McKellar's Goodnight, Numbers:
A New York Times bestseller!

"The joys of counting with pretty art and homage to Goodnight Moon." —Kirkus Reviews

"McKellar brings her enthusiasm for mathematics to a younger crowd in this gentle and well-executed counting book." —Publishers Weekly

"A similarly simple, quiet feel as Margaret Wise Brown's iconic Goodnight Moon...there is a lot to count on." -Booklist

Kirkus Review

2017-12-06
For 10 flower friends, the grass is always greener…in the sky.Ten Fantasia-like flowers with adorable faces and leaf arms/hands love being together and basking in the sun, but they also can't help wanting to break free of their roots and fly when they see the fairies flitting about in the moonlight. One night, "Said the tiny blue one, / ‘Fairy up in the sky, / you see, I'm a flower, / but I want to fly.' " While the fairy is puzzled at the flower's discontent, she grants its wish and transforms it into a butterfly. One by one the others join their mate in the sky as butterflies, each one's color reflecting its flower origin. At daybreak, though, the new butterflies regret the transformation, and the understanding fairy changes them back again: "But big and tall, / or short and small, / being ourselves / is best of all!" Really? There isn't even one flower that would really rather fly all the time? Throughout, McKellar emphasizes that there are always 10 in all, though some may be flowers and some butterflies at any given point. The endpapers reinforce ways to make 10 by showing 11 combinations, all in two rows of five, which may confuse children, rather than always keeping butterflies separate from flowers and allowing one row to be longer than the other. The bright colors, butterflies, flowers, and the fairy, who is a dark-skinned pixie with long black hair, seem calibrated to attract girly audiences.A deterministic message detracts from the math. (Picture book. 3-6)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940176475609
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	07/26/2022
Series:	McKellar Math
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	Up to 4 Years

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