Mate and Rix Escape Boredom

Mate and Rix Escape Boredom features some really fun characters trying to find a place to be cozy. It turns into an adventure of adding up pennies using the partial-sums addition method. This a great for a child learning how to add!! Fun illustrations

Kangaroo and hedgehog want to find a nice cozy space away from the regimented shelves of toys. They try several places that don't work for them until they find a nice place that needs help to be just right. This book goes a long way to encouraging thinking outside the box, creative problem-solving, and presents an alternative math technique that I have used for seventy years.
Frans Vischer (Illustrator) fills the pages with whimsical, colorful illustrations which add even more fun and meaning to this book.
I requested and received a free temporary e-book on Adobe Digital Editions from Jolieology, LLC via NetGalley. Thank you!

This book is super neat. It tells the story of a hedgehog and kangaroo who are bored in the petshop over night. They find a place to build a fort, but they find that there are holes in it and need to fill it with pennies. Over the course of the story several mathematical ideas are discussed including regrouping, the partial sums method, arrays, repeated addition, patterns and open number lines. I like that the book focuses a lot on lining things up, as a grade 3 teacher, whether we are talking about placevalue, arrays or regrouping, I am always reminding my students to try to organize their manipulatives, pictorial representations and equations into groups or lines. Even the smallest routines and concepts are reinforced in this story! I love that font is large and accessible. I could see this book being used as a read aloud in a primary classroom and the font is large enough that it would be easy to project or share in a small space like the carpet when students are gathered close to the teacher. As a grade 3 teacher I would love to have this book in my classroom library! I would definitely recommend it for parents and teachers of children in the age 4-10 range who are developing an understanding of addition as being related to counting. Younger children will not be ready for the regrouping and place value aspects, but grade 2 and up definitely would be. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read and review this great book!