Product Description

Legend has it that one thousand years ago, a man dropped a porcelain tile. It broke into seven pieces five triangles, one square, and one parallelogram. When he tried to reassemble the square, he discovered he could create hundreds of different images from just those seven pieces.

Tangram Magician brings this ancient Chinese puzzle to the children and grown-ups of today. As the work of the magician unfolds, the reader can make the designs using the seven puzzle pieces provided along with the book. The dense-foam puzzle comes in a reusable plastic storage box artfully inset into the diecut cover. And when the story is done, there are hours of additional fun creating your own designs.

Simple enough for a six-year-old, sophisticated enough for a sixty-year-old.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #660503 in Books
• Published on: 2005
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 28 pages

About the Author
Lisa Campbell Ernst was born in Oklahoma but now makes her home in Kansas City, Missouri. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1978 from the University of Oklahoma and then began a career in advertising before turning to her true love: writing and illustrating books. Among her most notable works are When Bluebell Sang, Ginger Jumps, Duke the Dairy Delight Dog, Goldilocks Returns, The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book, and Tangram Magician, which she created in collaboration with her husband, Lee.

Customer Reviews

Great teaching tool
This is a fabulous tool for teaching kids to use tangrams! The book leaves room to have the kids use thier imagination to make their own tangrams. We have used this in our class and made our own tangram books from this one - the kids love it.

Great for kids
I bought this book to show the versatile talent of Lisa Campbell Ernst. It quickly became a favorite of my students. It is another great way for students to use their math skills using manipulatives. I believe Lisa created this book with her husband.