![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Running Press Kids, 19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-76 In this magnetic, informative. Illustrator’s agent: Emily Van Beek, Folio Literary Management. A Songbird Dreams of Singing: Poems About Sleeping Animals Kate Hosford, illus. She struggles with the sheer enormity of the idea: “Actually, my head was starting to hurt from all these thoughts.” It’s not until Uma’s grandmother notices her shoes that Uma can make infinity her own: “y love for her was as big as infinity.” Hosford’s (Big Bouffant) story is as much a look into the interior life of a sensitive girl as it is a meditation on a mathematical concept-a task for which Swiatkowska’s (This Baby) idiosyncratic portraits are perfectly suited. “How many stars were in the sky? A million? A billion? Maybe the number was as big as infinity.” Friends, teachers, and family give Uma new ways to think about infinity-as an endless succession of ancestors, or as a noodle cut in half and in half again (Swiatkowska draws Uma cutting a python-sized noodle with a knife, demonstrating that things can become infinitely small, too). (Mathematicians and philosophers, too.) It opens with a little girl, too excited. How many stars were in the sky A million A billion Maybe the number was as big as. Dark-haired Uma sits wide-eyed in her backyard under a black, star-studded sky, torn between the charm of her new red shoes and the overwhelming size of the universe. Infinity and Me, by Kate Hosford, illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska, is also aimed at the very youngest scientists. ![]()
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