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Measuring Penny

Lisa learns about the mathematics of measuring by measuring her dog Penny with all sorts of units, including pounds, inches, dog biscuits, and cotton swabs.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Leedy, Loreen
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Henry Holt, 1997.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Measurement > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Lisa learns about the mathematics of measuring by measuring her dog Penny with all sorts of units, including pounds, inches, dog biscuits, and cotton swabs.
Physical Description:	1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN:	0805053603 (alk. paper)
Author Notes:	Loren Leedy is a children's author and illustrator. She was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1959, and majored in art in college. She began making clay jewelry and chess sets out of whimsical animals, and eventually turned them into book characters. Her first published work was A Number of Dragons, in 1985. She has written and illustrated nearly 40 books since then. Her titles include: Missing Math: a Number Mystery, My Teacher is a Dinosaur, Seeing Symmetry, The Shocking Truth about Energy, Crazy Like a Fox: a Simile Story, Fraction Action, Blast off to Earth, and Postcards from Pluto. (Bowker Author Biography)