![]() I just hope kids find it to be a fast-paced, funny story. It touches on stuff like rounding up and down, and even/odd numbers (and the fact that the number eight resembles a snowman). Sure, Zero the Hero subtly teaches place-holding and arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction. They’ll likely want the story to entertain them, make them root for the characters, and wonder how it will all turn out. Young readers won’t necessarily pick up this picture book to learn math facts. In this kind of “faction” (a blend of fiction and fact), the fiction component is always paramount. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucky thing, because the manuscript hit my editor’s desk just as she was working with a wonderful New York Times-bestselling artist named Tom Lichtenheld, who agreed to illustrate it. But it took me about five years to actually finish writing a book about him. I immediately visualized Zero as an underdog math superhero, complete with cape. ![]()
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