Little Lies: All About Math
A Beastieville Book
by
Kirsten Hall and Bev Luedeke
Children's Fiction, ages 3-6.
Slider doesn't want to play, but instead of saying he doesn't want to play, he lies. Then he has to cover up his lies. In the end he is sorry.
This is a perfectly fine book with a moral. The math part, however, is too subtle for me. I would not say that this book is about math, but about lying and how it hurts people.
There is a glossary and a book discussion in the back, along with a math quiz. This must be the math the title references.
School Library Journal reported that this book "lacked focus". If it is supposed to focus on math, then it does lack focus. A better title would have been "Little Lies: Don't Let Them Hurt Your Friendships".
I do like the pictures and dramatis personae.
