The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice: How to Discover a Shape

by Amy Alznauer

Ablaze with pattern and color, this ebullient picture book biography celebrates the intersection of art and science--through the life and lens of an extraordinary amateur mathematician.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1536229474
• ISBN13: 9781536229479
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 4