{"id":40249,"date":"2022-03-07T16:44:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T21:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40249"},"modified":"2022-03-07T16:44:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T21:44:18","slug":"review-of-what-will-fit-by-grace-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40249","title":{"rendered":"Review of What Will Fit? by Grace Lin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/what_will_fit_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/what_will_fit_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/what_will_fit_large.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/what_will_fit_large-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><em>What Will Fit?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Grace Lin<\/p>\n<p>Charlesbridge, 2020.  16 pages.<br \/>\nReview written September 30, 2021, from my own copy ordered via Amazon.com<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p><em>What Will Fit?<\/em> is a board book in Charlesbridge\u2019s wonderful \u201cStorytelling Math\u201d series.<\/p>\n<p>This one is perfect \u2013 exploring spatial relationships in a way that is vitally interesting to the toddlers it\u2019s written for.<\/p>\n<p>The story is board-book simple.  We\u2019ve got a little girl going to the farmer\u2019s market with a basket.  She wants to find something that fits just right in her basket.  She looks at a beet, an apple, a zucchini (turned both ways), and an eggplant.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, she finds a pumpkin just the right size and celebrates.<\/p>\n<p>On the back spread are notes to parents with playful ways you can build your child\u2019s spatial sense.<\/p>\n<p>The package all adds up to a sweet little story for short attention spans that will springboard into conversations that will help children learn an important concept fundamental to mathematical understanding.  And all in a way that is interesting to them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gracelin.com\/\">gracelin.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesbridge.com\/pages\/storytellingmath\">charlesbridge.com\/storytellingmath<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1623541255\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/what_will_fit.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/what_will_fit.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>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but 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=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Will Fit? by Grace Lin Charlesbridge, 2020. 16 pages. Review written September 30, 2021, from my own copy ordered via Amazon.com Starred Review What Will Fit? is a board book in Charlesbridge\u2019s wonderful \u201cStorytelling Math\u201d series. This one is perfect \u2013 exploring spatial relationships in a way that is vitally interesting to the toddlers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,27,15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-for-the-very-young","category-mathematical","category-picture-book-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40249","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=40249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40261,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40249\/revisions\/40261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}