The Great Mathemachicken 2: Have a Slice Day

by Nancy Krulik, Charlie Alder (Illustrator)

Overview

Chirpy the chick makes a new friend who helps her discover how delicious fractions can be in the second book in New York Times bestselling author Nancy Krulik.

After her feats of math and science derring-do, Chirpy is the talk of the coop. So when the chicks face a new problem—Clucky greedily chomping down on all the chow—they turn to their Great Mathemachicken for a solution.

Wandering off to think, she meets Quackers, a very curious duck, who has a lot of his own questions. Unfortunately, Chirpy doesn’t have answers. But she knows the best place to find them—school! So the pair hops on the bus to do some investigation, learning about reading and pizza, tally marks and fractions. And it turns out, fractions are yummy . . .  and may be the answer to the chickens’ coop conundrum.

The second book in the Great Mathemachicken chapter book series, combines New York Times bestselling author Nancy Krulik’s trademark humor and clever wordplay with hilarious and lively two-color artwork from the incredibly talented Charlie Alder, to create an engrossing  and charming STEM-based adventure that will have young readers clucking for more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781645950769
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	04/11/2023
Series:	The Great Mathemachicken , #2
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	30 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Nancy Krulik is the author of more than 200 books for children and young adults, three of them New York Times bestsellers. Her series, including How I Survived Middle School, Katie Kazoo Switcheroo, George Brown, Class Clown, Magic Bone, Project Droid, Princess Pulverizer, and Ms. Frogbottom's Field Trips are beloved around the world.

Nancy lives in Manhattan with her husband, composer Daniel Burwasser. Visit her online at www.realnancykrulik.com.
 

Charlie Alder has written and illustrated many books for children, including Daredevil Duck and Chicken Break! She lives in Devon, England, with her husband and son. When not drawing chickens, Charlie can be found in her studio drinking coffee, arranging her crayons, and inventing more accidental animal heroes.

Visit her online at www.charliealder.com.
 

Editorial Reviews

"Krulik succeeds at keeping the math component present without overwhelming the story. The abundant wordplay, and chicken and egg puns throughout the book are amusing. . . . Illustrations are colorful, enjoyable, and complement the text well. . . . An enjoyable early chapter book. . . ."—School Library Journal

"Krulik loads her 10 easily digestible chapters with puns and jokes as well as nuggets of learning. . . ."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

01/27/2023

Gr 1–3—In this series sequel, Chirpy's fellow chicks start disagreeing over food, and they ask Chirpy to use her superpowers to solve their problem. With no idea how to do so, Chirpy escapes the other chicks and heads out on a magical adventure. Along the way, she makes a new friend, Quackers, who isn't good at understanding synonyms. Together, they head to school, where all great learning happens! There they learn about fractions, pizza, the importance of books, and tally marks. Can they figure out a way to use their new knowledge to solve Chirpy's problem? The characters and plot are a little simplistic, but work as an early chapter book. Krulik succeeds at keeping the math component present without overwhelming the story. The abundant wordplay, and chicken and egg puns throughout the book are amusing and help bring the plot to life. Readers will enjoy Quackers's lack of real-world understanding. Illustrations are colorful, enjoyable, and complement the text well. Characters are primarily animals, but the depictions school children are diverse. Though it's the second in the series, this title can be read independently. VERDICT An enjoyable early chapter book that will appeal to the author's fans and Doreen Cronin's chicken books. Recommended as an additional library purchase.—Kira Moody

School Library Journal

2022-11-16
Chirpy the chick stows away on the school bus with a new feathered friend to learn about pizza…and, oh yes, arithmetic.

Though she avoids the attention of the racially diverse (and surprisingly oblivious) class, Chirpy sees addition, counting tally marks by groups, and fractions demonstrated before the children race out to recess, leaving 10 delectable pizza scraps for her to divide with her relentlessly curious companion Quackers the duckling. Some of that arithmetic comes in handy later when Chirpy heroically faces down Clucky, a bully who has been hogging the feeder, to show her awed fellow chicks how to divide the feed into equal piles so that everyone gets a fair share. Krulik loads her 10 easily digestible chapters with puns and jokes as well as nuggets of learning and caps the episode with a recipe for pizza muffins. Alder’s illustrations, monochrome with yellow highlights, feature a table showing different styles of tally marks commonly used in various parts of the world as well as images of cute chicks (and duckies). Chirpy is distinguished from the other nestlings by her rallying cry—“Chirp chirp cha-ree!”—and the bow on her head decorated in mathematical symbols.

STEM-ware, barnyard style, with a bit of math-odical problem-solving. (cast profiles) (Animal fiction. 7-9)

Kirkus Reviews