The Quest for a Tangram Dragon

Name: The Quest for a Tangram Dragon
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781547608058
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By Christine Liu-Perkins

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Winner of the 2025 Mathical Book Prize for Young Readers Grades K-2A clever and charming introduction to the Tangram puzzle, a classic Chinese shape puzzle that's beloved in early math curriculum.A brave Little Triangle seeks a Chinese dragon to end the long drought. On the quest,... Read More

Format: Hardback

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The Quest for a Tangram Dragon

A clever and charming introduction to the Tangram puzzle, a classic Chinese shape puzzle that's beloved in early math curriculum, from creators of Chinese descent.

A clever and charming introduction to the Tangram puzzle, a classic Chinese shape puzzle that's beloved in early math curriculum, from creators of Chinese descent.

Description

Winner of the 2025 Mathical Book Prize for Young Readers Grades K-2

A clever and charming introduction to the Tangram puzzle, a classic Chinese shape puzzle that's beloved in early math curriculum.

A brave Little Triangle seeks a Chinese dragon to end the long drought. On the quest, Little Triangle meets other shapes who want to help. Using the magic of tangrams, the shapes do amazing things together:

Two triangles flip and flap to make a butterfly! With a square, they swap and swivel to make a bat! Four shapes jump and bump to become a bird.

But there's still no sign of the dragon they need.

When they reach a mountain, no matter how much they hop and plop, huddle and muddle, or leap and heap, the shapes can't find a way to the top. How will they ever find the dragon they're searching for?

Author Christine Liu-Perkins and illustrator Lynn Scurfield celebrate tangrams in this clever and warm-hearted story about the power of persistence and teamwork.

The book includes tangram shapes for readers to cut out, so they can play with their very own tangram puzzle!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781547608058

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 August 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens Books

Contributors:

Illustrated by Lynn Scurfield

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 255.0mm

Height: 255.0mm

Weight: 456g

Pages: 40

Collections

Children's Books Children's Early Years Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Christine Liu-Perkins Education & Reference Science & Nature

About the Author

Christine Liu-Perkins is a writer and researcher who specializes in Chinese history and culture. Her book At Home in Her Tomb: Lady Dai and the Ancient Chinese Treasures of Mawangdui unearths one of China’s top archaeological finds of the last century. She has a Ph.D in educational psychology. Born in Boston and raised near Kansas City, Christine now lives in Colorado.
christineliuperkins.com

Lynn Scurfield is a mixed media illustrator based in Toronto, Canada. She is the illustrator of several picture books including Flight: Notes from Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig, Two New Years, and Friends are Friends Forever.
www.lynnscurfield.com