{"id":20171,"date":"2013-09-28T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T21:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=20171"},"modified":"2013-09-28T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T21:22:17","slug":"review-of-infinity-and-me-by-kate-hosford-and-gabi-swiatkowska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=20171","title":{"rendered":"Review of Infinity and Me, by Kate Hosford and Gabi Swiatkowska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/infinity_and_me.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/infinity_and_me.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"infinity_and_me\" width=\"135\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21987\" \/><\/a><em>Infinity and Me<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Kate Hosford<br \/>\nillustrations by Gabi Swiatkowska<\/p>\n<p>Carolrhoda Books, Minneapolis, 2012.  36 pages.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I\u2019d had this book when my son was young and obsessed with Infinity.  He liked to make up numbers \u201cbigger than infinity,\u201d like \u201czappazudus\u201d and \u201cH-aloppus.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>This picture book follows a little girl who looks up at the stars in the sky and thinks about infinity.  Then she asks all the people around her how they think of infinity, and gets a different answer with each person.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures imaginatively express the abstract ideas.  We\u2019ve got numbers going on forever, driving on an infinity symbol forever, population expanding, things lasting forever, cutting things in half forever, and more and more.<\/p>\n<p>The culmination?  Love for her Grandma \u201cas big as infinity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a lovely picture book perfect for setting minds spinning and starting cozy conversations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/khosford.com\/\">khosford.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolateforgabi.com\/\">chocolateforgabi.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lernerbooks.com\">lernerbooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0761367268\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/infinity_and_me.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/infinity_and_me.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time.  The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infinity and Me by Kate Hosford illustrations by Gabi Swiatkowska Carolrhoda Books, Minneapolis, 2012. 36 pages. I wish I\u2019d had this book when my son was young and obsessed with Infinity. He liked to make up numbers \u201cbigger than infinity,\u201d like \u201czappazudus\u201d and \u201cH-aloppus.\u201d This picture book follows a little girl who looks up at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary","category-mathematical","category-picture-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}