Ten Magic Butterflies, Danica McKellar
Ten Magic Butterflies, Danica McKellar
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Ten Magic Butterflies

Author: Danica McKellar

Narrator: Danica McKellar

Unabridged: 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/26/2022


Synopsis

Learn at home with help from The Wonder Years/Hallmark actress, math whiz, and New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar using her acclaimed McKellar Math books! Fairies, butterflies, and magic help to make this math-focused picture book positively enchanting! 

Join ten flower friends for a night of excitement that mixes a little math with a lot of magic. As each flower turns into a butterfly, children will discover different ways to group numbers to create ten, an essential building block of math, all while watching each flower's dream come true. (And keep an eye out for the adorable caterpillar who wishes he could fly, too!)

In this, the second book in the McKellar Math line, actress, math whiz, and New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar once again sneaks in secret addition and subtraction concepts to help make your child smarter and uses her proven math success to show children that loving numbers is as easy as a wave of a wand and a BING BANG BOO! 

"[Danica McKellar's] bringing her love of numbers to children everywhere." --Brightly on Goodnight, Numbers

"Danica McKellar is now on a mission to make math fun for even the youngest of kids." --L.A. Parent Magazine

About The Author

Danica McKellar is the New York Times bestselling author of groundbreaking math books, including Do Not Open This Math Book, the board book Bathtime Mathtime, picture books Goodnight, Numbers and Ten Magic Butterflies, and the middle-school hit Kiss My Math, and is a summa cum laude graduate of UCLA with a degree in mathematics. She is also well known for her acting roles on The Wonder Years, The West Wing, and multiple Hallmark Channel movies, and more. Find her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (and more) at @danicamckellar, and visit McKellarMath.com.Jennifer Bricking is a concept artist for animation and video games. When she isn't drawing, she likes to travel, take photos, and skateboard. She lives in Denver, Colorado. Ten Magic Butterflies is her first book. You can follow her on Facebook and Instagram, or on her website at jbricking.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig on May 04, 2020

Miss Five really loved this one - a good start being it had flowers, a fairy, and butterflies. But it went beyond that - it's a rhyming tale that throughout the fun story incorporated some counting too and fun 'sound words'. It's a pretty sweet story, but they're good now and then in among all the o......more

Goodreads review by Rachael on September 16, 2018

Numbers, poetry, and science. You'll find an element of each of those in this adorable book! It's a great story that will help young children who are learning to count, identify numbers. But there's also a hidden inspirational message. In the story, there are ten flowers who ask to become butterflie......more

Goodreads review by Sara on November 16, 2019

Got this for my niece and I think she will really enjoy it. Very cute illustrations and a fun way to learn math skills.......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on March 13, 2020

Ten flowers are tired of being themselves and curious about other creatures, so they ask a fairy to change them into butterflies so that they can fly. The early point of the book is to show how 1+9 = 10, 2+8 = 10, etc., basically, each time one is changed into a butterfly, there is still 10 of them......more

Goodreads review by Becky on May 23, 2018

First sentence: Once upon a time, there were 10 flower friends. Were they always happy? Well that depends... Premise/plot: Ten (talking) flowers become dissatisfied with their life and dream of flying like the fairies they see at night. One flower speaks up and asks the fairy for a bit of magic. The......more


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Praise for Danica McKellar's Goodnight, Numbers:
A New York Times bestseller!

"The joys of counting with pretty art and homage to Goodnight Moon." --Kirkus Reviews

"McKellar brings her enthusiasm for mathematics to a younger crowd in this gentle and well-executed counting book." --Publishers Weekly

"A similarly simple, quiet feel as Margaret Wise Brown's iconic Goodnight Moon...there is a lot to count on." -Booklist