A Beautiful House for Birds

This teaches kids that making mistakes is okay. I liked the fun pattern the birdhouse ended up being.

I feel this series is so wholesome. I accept it all as a whole. I adore the rawness of the illustrations and the way the colours playing a huge role in these few pages. It’s okay to be different. It’s okay to be not perfect.

I love how this book describes the love of colours!

Thank you, Charlesbridge, for the advance reading copy.

A Beautiful House for Birds is a book younger readers would enjoy. It shows the construction of the bird house as well as guides the reader through decorating it with a pattern. This would make a good STEM book.

This delightful book is a celebration of math for kids, everywhere!

Olivia, an adorable little girl, wants to decorate a birdhouse for the summer months. She decides that the roof should be a pattern of stripes of many different colours. She accomplishes her goal perfectly at first and then oh! oh! things go south... she messes up! Although she deviates from her original plan she also discovers a wonderful life lesson... it's okay to make a mistake and be able to happily move forward once again.

This book is about exploring patterns and about creative problem-solving. Storytelling math highlights children using math in their daily endeavours as they play, build, and discover the world around them.

Opportunities to engage in hands-on activities are a fun and easy way for kids ( and grown-ups ) to unitize math skills each and every day. "A Beautiful House for Birds" was developed in collaboration with math experts at STEM education nonprofit TERC, under a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation.

The illustrations are colourful, vibrant and engaging. I love the book's positive encouraging message and I highly recommend it.

Storytelling math is an incredible series for the youngest among us! Caldecott Honor winner and Newbery Award winner Grace Lin uses her talents to create approachable stories focusing on everyday adventures with Math. In "A Beautiful House for BIrds," Lin focuses on Olivia who is painting a pattern on her bird house. When she makes a mistake she learns how patterns can change. A brief page for parents at the end gives more ideas for continuing the lesson.

This is a infant to toddler age book explores creativity, problem solving, and patterns. Beautiful art and story!

This picture book reminds readers that math is all around us by looking at patterns. The girl in the story is painting a pattern on a bird house when she makes what she thinks is a mistake in her pattern. She then realizes that she can fix the mistake by continuing on her new pattern. I think that patterns are often one of those concepts that kids forget are part of math and can be hard to teach, especially to older students who are missing that understanding from preschool years. I could definitely see using this book with a Kindergarten to Grade 2 class, and perhaps even with my grade 3s. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to read and review this book!

This book once again shows Lin's mastery of creating books for the young reader, with a beautiful balance of bright colors and simple text. The story connects the everyday life of the child (birds in the backyard) to thinking about the world with curiosity and a scientific spirit.

Olivia wants to decorate a bird house. She decides to make patterned stripes, but gets distracted and makes a mistake. No worries! It can still be a pattern.

The story telling math is a great series for early learners. The illustrations are bright, joyful, and entertaining. The writing encourages interaction with the book. The back matter includes an explanation of the math concepts in the book and extension activities.

I highly recommend this series.

I fully admit to loving Grace Lin's books. Her multi-cultural illustrations are well past needed and much appreciated in children's literature.

A Beautiful House for Birds is part of a series introducing basic math concepts. In this book, a little girl named Olivia is painting stripes on the roof of a birdhouse using two different colors. She becomes distracted, makes "a mistake", and adds a third color. Using problem solving and logic, she realizes she can just continue with the new pattern. The book also contains other activities that can be done to help your little ones with patterns.

I would've loved to have had this series when my girls were younger!

Many thanks to Charlesbridge for providing an ARC via Netgalley..

A Beautiful House for Birds presented a pattern concept. Our classes K-2 enjoyed the book and were able to read the text and figure out the pattern. The suggested activities at the end of the book were helpful.

My four year old loved this book, especially as we have been working on building patterns! The math component of the book was easy for a child to understand and predict. The illustrations were bright and fun.

A Beautiful House for Birds is a great book for introducing the littlest readers to math and patterns while showing them also that it's okay to make mistakes.

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Very cute book. I like the problem solving half way through when she make a mistake. Also "try this" ideas were fun.

I can see using this story for spring story time and incorporating the bird house painting as a craft. I wish it was a bit longer.

Simple early math reader geared toward preschoolers. This book in the series focuses on patterns. A child is painting a bird house using a pattern but disrupts the pattern. Instead of an intense emotional response, the child focuses on creating a new pattern for the roof of the birdhouse. I love the added problem/solution aspect of this book. It’s subtle way to teach a math concept as well as illustrate problem solving.

A Beautiful House for Birds is a picture book teaching math concepts. This book focuses on patterns. The young girl, Olivia, is painting a bird house. The book asks readers questions about what comes next in the pattern. Recommended for ages 3-5