I have become such a big fan of this book. This book is so interesting to read. The text isn't linear and you have to look around the page to find the story. The text and graphics together make this story fantastic and fun to read. It starts with a family who gets a very special package delivered to them on the first day of the new year, a penguin. The next day the same thing happens, and the next day and the next day, and every day after. They soon realize they have a house full of penguins. Each time they get a penguin there is a note attached that is a little rhyme. As the family keeps getting penguins every day, they read the notes and they remind them of someone, but they still don't know who is sending them penguins. As the story goes on the family has to try to figure out what to do with all these penguins. It's fun to see the things they come up with.
The authors, Jean-Luc Fromental and Joelle Jolivet, did a wonderful job writing this story and the illustrations that go along with them only add to this quirky, sometimes chaotic, story. The one thing I love about this book is they have integrated real math problems into the story. It is a good example for a word problem and then it hows it in numerical form. "February has only twenty-eight days. Each morning another enguins arrived. That made: 31 + 28 = ?" (Fromental & Jolivet, 2006). They also include multiplication problems and lots of opportunities to try to come up with solutions to solving problems in this book. This would be an excellent book to use in the classroom to use during both math and reading.
Fromental, J., & Jolivet, J. (2006). 365 penguins. (p. 10). New York, NY: Abrams Books for Young Readers.
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