Polygons

by Marina Cohen

Polygons are shapes with a number of sides joined together. They are everywhere! A baseball field is a diamond-shaped polygon. Join Emily at a baseball game and look for different shapes. She discovers that the field is full of much more than baseball players - it's filled with polygons, too.

Genres: Nonfiction

24 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2010

About the author

Marina Cohen is the author of several horror and fantasy books for children and young teens. Her novels THE INN BETWEEN, THE DOLL'S EYE, A BOX OF BONES and SHADOW GRAVE have been nominated for various awards in Canada and the United States including, The Sunburst Award, The Ontario Library Association's Red Maple and Silver Birch Awards, The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, The Rocky Mountain Book Award, The Manitoba Young Reacher's Choice Award, and The Pacific Northwest Library Association Children's Choice Award. THE INN BETWEEN and A BOX OF BONES and SHADOW GRAVE are also Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selections.

Marina loves old castles, hot cocoa, mysterious doors of all shapes and sizes, gingerbread and all things dark and creepy. She spends far too much time asking herself "What if?"

Reviews

[Rose Rosetree · Rating 5 out of 5]

One reason to love books is how they help us to see our everyday experience . . . all lit up by concepts. Thrilling concepts that bring new meaning to life!

It's one thing to understand that a polygon can be any shape with a number of sides that connect.

But then Marina Cohen makes this visceral. Since a baseball field counts as a diamond-shaped polygon.

Readers join Emily at a baseball game. Like her, can look for different shapes -- and find them aplenty. FIVE STARS for this wonder-evoking book.

Also, I happen to love the photo of Emily and her Dad on Page 9.