Sidney the Silly Who Only Eats 6
By M.W. Penn
Illustrated by Sarah Tommer
978-0978404727
Gumboot Books 2007
First Place winner of the 2007 CT Press Club Communications Award for best children’s book
View a lesson plan using the book, about dividing
View a lesson plan using the book, about greater than/less than
The concept of number grows out of ideas about relationships between quantities. This book on number and comparison is about six year old King Sidney, who will eat only 6 of everything, though the palace chef, Brolly from Brixes, tempts him with delicious 4s, 1s and even 600s. When the beleaguered chef finally quits, Sidney learns to divide his food into portions – and also to compromise.
“Penn’s creative use of rhyme and number is a model of how to help the young child begin the demanding tasks of mastering literacy and numeracy.” – Dr. Edward Zigler, founder of the Zigler Institute of Child Development at Yale University and the ‘father’ of the Head Start program