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The Warlord's Alarm, A Mathematical Adventure
by
Virginia Walton Pilegard (Goodreads Author),
Nicolas Debon
Chuan and Jing Jing use their mathematical skills to ensure that the warlord wakes up on time. They are traveling to the emperor's palace, and they can only sleep for four hours before resuming their journey in order to arrive as the emperor's gates open. How will they wake up? There are no clocks at the inn where they are staying, so they must create their own alarm clock...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
October 28th 2006
by Pelican Publishing Company
(first published October 2006)
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An interesting story with two children trying to solve a problem that involves time. This could work for my Schedules/Time storytime or my Puzzles & Problems storytime. I'm not sure how well it would work for reading aloud, considering some of it may be a bit over the younger children's head. Then again, while they do not understand the logistics, they may still get the point that the children used water to help them wake up.
I like that there are instructions of how to make your own...more
I like that there are instructions of how to make your own...more
Grades 2-6
--Set ancient china, Chuan and Jing Jing need to make sure their war lord makes it to the emperor’s gates before all the others
--long journey, sleep overnight. No alarm clock to wake them before the sun.
--discover that water drips from their drinking bag and takes about 12 hours to empty
--discuss sundials and an incense clock used at the time
--create their own clock to fill a bowl placed over their head so that it will drip at approx. the time they need and wak...more
--Set ancient china, Chuan and Jing Jing need to make sure their war lord makes it to the emperor’s gates before all the others
--long journey, sleep overnight. No alarm clock to wake them before the sun.
--discover that water drips from their drinking bag and takes about 12 hours to empty
--discuss sundials and an incense clock used at the time
--create their own clock to fill a bowl placed over their head so that it will drip at approx. the time they need and wak...more
This is a fun book that reflects a journey two friends take to meet the king, it requires some higher level reading but is great for examining other culture and contexts.
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Mrs. Pilegard was raised on a cattle ranch in
More about Virginia Walton Pilegard...
California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Nicolas Debon, the artist with whom she collaborated on the Warlord Series, includes a horse somewhere in the illustrations in each of their seven books to celebrate her first love. Nicolas includes dragonflies in his illustrations as his own signature. Adrian Tans illustrated Mrs. Pilegard's eighth mathematical a
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