This book is very repetitive. I do not like that it repeats the first sequence multiple times. Once or twice would have been okay, but five times is a little excessive. The overall meaning and message received throughout the book is good and even emotional towards the end. It could have been written better and still gotten the same message across. ( )

This book uses the story of a young boy and his magic seeds to explain multiplication and exponential growth. The boy is told to eat one seed and plant the other. He ends up with two seeds. He then sees what happens if he plants the two seeds. What the students see is the rapid rate at which the number of seeds multiply, exponential growth. This story explains the concept in an easy way for the students to understand. The story could be used to open the lesson or throughout the lesson as you are developing the concept. ( )

This has to be read aloud and taught (unless the child is a math genius) to fully appreciate it. The concept is multiplication and exponential growth. It's good for grade 4 and up. Anno gets two magic seeds and at first, he does what he's told. He eats one and plants the other, so each year he ends up with two seeds again. But what will happen if he breaks the cycle and plants BOTH seeds? Well, his harvest multiplies, and we are lead through exactly HOW that happens. With visuals to anchor us as we get into increasingly larger numbers, this is good for math-phobic people (like me) and students starting out with more difficult math concepts.

In this exciting story, a little boy is given specific instructions for burying his seeds so that they may be fruitful and multiply for him. The story continues with his planting and kids will enjoy reading how many seeds the boy gathers!

This is such a fun book! We got out the white board and marker to figure out the how many seeds questions. About halfway through Blake yelled "Hey! This is a math book!" But he wanted to finish the story anyway. ( )