The Lion’s Share
A book about halving, doubling, sharing, and minding your manners.
(And cakes! Lots and lots of cakes.)
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Drawing the Pictures
An experiment with dripping ink led me to a whole new way of making illustrations.
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Designing the Book
Did you ever wonder why a book looks the way it does?
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Activities and Lesson Plans
Suitable for a wide variety of grades and class sizes, including both math and language activities.
The Lion’s Share
2008, Walker and Co.
ISBN Hardcover: 0802797687
ISBN Paperback: 0802723608
Recommend ages: 4 to 8
When the ant receives a special invitation to dine with the lion, she is ready to be on her best behavior. During dessert, the other guests do not mind their manners, each one taking half the remaining cake as it is passed around. By the time it reaches the ant, barely a crumb is left for her to share with the King. What to do?
She offers to make up for it by baking another cake, this one just for the King. Not to be outdone, all the other animals in turn offer to bake twice as many cakes as the next. As it turns out, this is not a particularly good idea.
Anyone in the market for a book about math, dessert, obnoxious animals, and the wisdom of knowing when you have enough will not be disappointed. As for everyone else? Let them eat cake.
“This mouthwatering tale of division and multiplication will delight young readers as they imagine a palace full of cakes. The captivating ink and watercolor illustrations, enhanced with digital techniques, continually reinforce the mathematical theme with humor and detail. Many layouts effectively present a graphic display of the simple fraction concepts. The results are terrific. Because young readers will relish the absurdity of the story, it will hold up to repeated readings to reinforce math instruction.”
