children's picture book. This title was mentioned in an article that talked about teaching Venn diagrams, and the geek in me thought, "wow! a picture book about venn diagrams! I've got to see this!" So when my request arrived at my library I was mildly disappointed to find out it did not mention Venn D's at all--but you could easily use its content as data for creating them once you'd already taught about Venn D's. And math aside, it's not a bad picture book on its own either. ( )

This book is about three humans and two cats. The book helps children learn to count. The book also introduces pets to children. The book also teaches children about differences. The illustrations in this book are very colorful and fun. ( )

Lesson Activity Ideas:
-have children draw a picture of the "creatures" that live at their house
-use stacking cubes to represent the number of "creatures" drawn
-compare with other students' stacks
-make a class book(s) with the children's illustrations

Charming book showing many different ways to group the five members of a family, two cats, a mother, a father, and their daughter. ( )

I think this book could be good for a number of lessons on data collection and venn diagrams. I just don't know which one would work best yet. Nice discovery though. ( )