{"product_id":"the-five-sides-of-marjorie-rice-how-to-discover-a-shape-9781536229479","title":"The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice: How to Discover a Shape","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Writing with a storyteller's flair, Alznauer captures her audience's attention with colorful phrases and interesting facts.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAblaze with pattern and color, this ebullient picture book biography celebrates the intersection of art and science--through the life and lens of an extraordinary amateur mathematician. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Marjorie Rice was a little girl in Roseburg, Oregon, in the 1930s, she saw patterns everywhere. Swimming in the river, her body was a shape in the water, the water a shape in the hills, the hills a shape in the sky. Some shapes, fitted into a rectangle or floor tilings, were so beautiful they made her long to be an artist. Marjorie dreamed of studying art and geometry, perhaps even solving the age-old \"problem of five\" (why pentagons don't fit together the way shapes with three, four, or six sides do). But when college wasn't possible, she pondered and explored all through secretarial school, marriage, and parenting five children, until one day, while reading her son's copy of \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, she learned that a subscriber had discovered a pentagon never seen before. If a reader could do it, couldn't she? Marjorie studied all the known pentagons, drew a little five-sided house, and kept pondering. She'd done it! And she'd go on to discover more pentagonal tilings and whole new classes of tessellations. In this visually wondrous tribute, Anna Bron's intricate art teems with patterns, including nods to M. C. Escher, and radiates the thrill of one woman's discovery, playfully inviting readers to approach geometry through art--and art through geometry. Back matter offers more on the story of five and suggestions on how to discover a shape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amy Alznauer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Candlewick Press (MA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.70h x 9.70w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781536229479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2025 pg. 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Alznauer\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan\u003c\/i\u003e, illustrated by Daniel Miyares, and \u003ci\u003eFlying Paintings: The Zhou Brothers: A Story of Revolution and Art\u003c\/i\u003e, illustrated by ShanZuo Zhou and DaHuang Zhou. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh and an MS in mathematics from the University of Illinois. Her adult epistolary memoir \u003ci\u003eLove and Salt \u003c\/i\u003ewon a Christopher Award, and she is on the mathematics faculty at Northwestern University. She lives in Chicago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Bron\u003c\/b\u003e is the illustrator of \u003ci\u003eNo Horses in the House! The Audacious Life of Artist Rosa Bonheur\u003c\/i\u003e by Mireille Messier and other acclaimed picture books, as well as an animation director who has worked on Emmy and Oscar-nominated short films, commercials, and various other projects. She lives in British Columbia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ripon Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44119508484141,"sku":"9781536229479","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/0501\/1245\/files\/img_4b96fc74-bd90-4524-ab03-633c3cfce582.jpg?v=1756228575","url":"https:\/\/riponbookstore.com\/products\/the-five-sides-of-marjorie-rice-how-to-discover-a-shape-9781536229479","provider":"Ripon Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}