The five sides of Marjorie Rice : how to discover a shape
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Bron, Anna, 1989- illustrator.
Published
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2025.
ISBN
9781536229479 (hardcover), 1536229474 (hardcover)
Status
Messenger Public Library of North Aurora - Juvenile Biography
JB RICE
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JB RICE
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Copies
| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Messenger Public Library of North Aurora - Juvenile Biography | JB RICE | On Shelf |
| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Addison Public Library - 1st Floor - New Children's Books | jBIO 510 RICE M. | On Shelf |
| Batavia Public Library District - Juvenile Non-Fiction | J 516 ALZ | On Shelf |
| Bensenville SD#2 - Johnson School - Nonfiction | 921 RICE | On Shelf |
| Bloomingdale Public Library - Juvenile Biography | J B RICE | Being transferred between libraries |
| Crete Public Library District - Youth Services Biography | J B RICE, M. | On Shelf |
More Details
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Notes
Other Title
5 sides of Marjorie Rice
Other Title
How to discover a shape
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
"When Marjorie Rice was a little girl in Roseburg, Oregon, in the 1930s, she saw patterns everywhere. Swimming in the river, her body was a shape in the water, the water a shape in the hills, the hills a shape in the sky. Some shapes, fitted into a rectangle or floor tilings, were so beautiful they made her long to be an artist. Marjorie dreamed of studying art and geometry, perhaps even solving the age-old "problem of five" (why pentagons don't fit together the way shapes with three, four, or six sides do). But when college wasn't possible, she pondered and explored all through secretarial school, marriage, and parenting five children, until one day, while reading her son's copy of Scientific American, she learned that a subscriber had discovered a pentagon never seen before. If a reader could do it, couldn't she? Marjorie studied all the known pentagons, drew a little five-sided house, and kept pondering. She'd done it! And she'd go on to discover more pentagonal tilings and whole new classes of tessellations." -- Provided by publisher.
Target Audience
Ages 7-9. Candlewick Press.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (Style Guide)
Alznauer, A., & Bron, A. (2025). The five sides of Marjorie Rice: how to discover a shape. (First edition). Candlewick Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 18th Edition (Style Guide)Alznauer, Amy and Anna Bron. 2025. The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice: How to Discover a Shape. Candlewick Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 18th Edition (Style Guide)Alznauer, Amy and Anna Bron. The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice: How to Discover a Shape. Candlewick Press, 2025.
UCL Harvard Citation (Style Guide)Alznauer, A. and Bron, A. (2025). The five sides of marjorie rice: how to discover a shape. First edn Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (Style Guide)Alznauer, Amy, and Anna Bron. The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice: How to Discover a Shape. First edition, Candlewick Press, 2025.
Note: Citations contain only title, author, edition, and publisher. Only UCL Harvard citations contain the year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of May 2025.
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