A Remainder of One

Hup, two, three, four! We're in the 25th Army Corps. Queen's count! Two, three! We are the marching infantry! Poor Joe! He wants to march in the parade, but every time the lines are uneven, he must stand aside. What's a poor bug to do? Joe is determined. He studies the problem, relining the twenty-five bugs in his squadron from two lines to three lines to four lines, until inspiration and fortitude result in five lines of five -- and Joe fits in the last.

About the author

Elinor Pinczes and Randall Enos have collaborated together on another book for children, My Full Moon Is Square. Ms. Pinczes is the author of several other books for young readers. She lives with her husband in Bozeman, Montana. Mr. Enos’s illustrations have appeared in books, magazines, and newspapers for more than forty-five years. He lives in Easton, Connecticut, with his wife.
Bonnie MacKain has had illustrations featured in Cricket and Ladybug.
 

Summary

Hup, two, three, four! We're in the 25th Army Corps. Queen's count! Two, three! We are the marching infantry! Poor Joe! He wants to march in the parade, but every time the lines are uneven, he must stand aside. What's a poor bug to do? Joe is determined. He studies the problem, relining the twenty-five bugs in his squadron from two lines to three lines to four lines, until inspiration and fortitude result in five lines of five -- and Joe fits in the last.

Additional text

"Pinczes and MacKain apply numerical division to a practical problem -- and explain it in an entertaining, visually emphatic way." Publishers Weekly, Starred

Product details

• Authors: Bonnie MacKain, Elinor Pinczes, Elinor J Pinczes, Elinor J. Pinczes
• Assisted by: Bonnie MacKain (Illustration)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 7
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.1995
• EAN: 9780395694558
• ISBN: 978-0-395-69455-8
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 222 mm x 203 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 290 g
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Picture books; Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; JUVENILE FICTION: Concepts / Words, JUVENILE FICTION: Concepts / Alphabet, JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / Insects, Spiders, etc., JUVENILE FICTION: Concepts / Counting & Numbers, JUVENILE FICTION: Girls & Women, JUVENILE FICTION: Activity Books / General, JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / Pets, JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / Nocturnal, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Mathematics / General, JUVENILE FICTION: Mathematics, JUVENILE FICTION: Concepts / Opposites