The Librarydude!

Children's Book Recommendation.

We raided the discard pile at our local library last week and found this gem.

Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar.

For those who haven't seen it, it is a great story for young children about a jar, that holds a sea, that holds and island that contains kingdoms, made up of villages, which contain houses, which have rooms that have cupbourds, and in the cupboards are boxws which contain..... jars! (It's very similar to the "As I Was Going To St Ives" riddle)

My five year old loves the "magic jar" aspect, and my seven year old is just learning multiplication, so she is getting into the "how many jars are there at the end" part of the book.

The second half of the book is a description of the mathematical process of factorials, showing exactly how to calculate how many jars are in the boxes at the end of the story. It turns out to be over three million.

I think the book is damn cool, and the cover is a great painting.