My Garden is a Square – A Let’s visit Numberland rhyming children’s picture book

Our book is a perfect start into the magical world of Let’s visit Numberland with your children! Simply enjoy exploring and talking about the pictures and rhymes. Everything is designed in a way that children experience relevant details of what makes a number: “Look, I see 2 yellow flowers and 2 pink flowers in Number Four’s garden – that makes 4 in total. I think she could have also planted 4 different colours…”
An eye opener and a communication starter, building on the maths understanding children are born with and translating relevant maths into the world of children.

Watch me reading the book on YouTube 🙂

Get a feeling for what makes our book special, what the reviewers say, who the people behind it are.
Available languages: English, Hindi, Indonesian, Chinese, Arabic (soon) and French (soon). More languages in preparation.
Available directly from TBR Books or from a local / online bookseller in your country.

Get the feeling with some sample pages

What is My Garden is a Square about?

Our rhyming children’s picture book introduces the Numberland idea and characters, including mischievous Trickster and caring Numberilly. The story and pictures inspire to explore relevant knowledge about basic numbers and shapes. They open our eyes for the mathematics in the world around us.
The book makes an excellent starting point of any Numberland co-adventure, but it is also a stand-alone resource.

The story and pictures inspire to explore relevant knowledge about basic numbers and shapes. They open our eyes for the mathematics in the world around us.

This picture book is intended for parents and teachers of 3 to 5 year old children as yet another means to support our children on their journey of self-education, combined with the joy of reading a book together. The book makes an excellent starting point of any Numberland co-adventure, but it is also a stand-alone resource.

We also give helpful hints when reading the book, to get the most out of the book and spark our children.

Reviews

Barbara Schindelhauer and Mark Hansen have written a wonderfully engaging and interactive book for children, the perfect introduction to the world of numbers. With fun and colourful details on each page, this book is sure to capture the imagination of children everywhere as they are introduced to the concept of numbers and counting. (Tanya Natalie)

It’s wonderful to meet numbers one to ten, Trickster and Numberilly. I loved reading it aloud and giving voices to them. Thank you for this charismatic poem playfully written with imaginative visuals making all fall in love with maths. (Anusha Shrestha, Co-Founder @Education Influence, CSM @upschool)

Enchanting, entertaining, and engaging! MY GARDEN IS A SQUARE is a “math-for-all” delightful tale of “Numberland’s” fundamental and essential entities. The numbers come alive via this visually-appealing story’s multiple representations. The book also poses good questions that organically provoke mathematical thought in children. A must-have early years book!   (Jaspreet Sethi – Founder Math with a Smile, India)

An easy way to introduce children to the world of numbers and patterns. Bright and easy to follow, I’d highly recommend this book to help young children to start noticing numbers around them and to engage in all the patterns that can be seen.   (Debbie Kemish – Retired Director of International School in Australia and teacher of English language)

About TBR Books by CALEC, our publisher

TBR Books is the publishing arm of the Center for the Advancement of Languages, Education, and Communities (CALEC), a nonprofit organisation with a focus on multilingualism, cross-cultural understanding, and the dissemination of ideas. Our mission is to empower multilingual families and linguistic communities through education, knowledge, and advocacy. Visit us at https://calec.org/tbr-books/

So our book will be translated into various other languages by dedicated volunteers!
The Hindi version is also available now, for example through amazon.co.uk.

Also available: Indonesian, Chinese
In the making: Arabic, French

Co-author Mark Hansen

Meeting our publisher Fabrice Jaumont