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 and telling of a group of fairytake characters who bake up a special birthday cake. Very simple drawings and one-sentence pages lend to read-aloud enjoyment as kids learn their birthday cakes may not be entirely of parents' making. Greg Tang's Math Potatoes: Mind-stretching Brain Food (0439443903, $16.95) enjoys fun drawings by Harry Briggs as it cooks up new riddles to make math fun. Each riddle riddle, puzzling question, specifically one that consists of a fanciful description or definition of something to be guessed. A famous riddle was asked by the Sphinx: "What goes on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, on three at night?" Oedipus guessed the  embraces a problem and a hint: kids learn how to build problem solving problem solving

Process involved in finding a solution to a problem. Many animals routinely solve problems of locomotion, food finding, and shelter through trial and error.
 skills while enjoying the riddle format.
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Title Annotation:The Fairytale Cake; Math Potatoes: Mind-Stretching Brain Food
Publication:Children's Bookwatch
Article Type:Book Review
Date:Sep 1, 2005
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