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I stared at the last question on my daughter’s first-grade math homework as if doing so until my eyes grew callouses would cause an understanding of what it was asking
It's Pi Day (3.14)! Because we're always in the market for a good book about...pie (yum!), last year we recommended Matt James's Nice Try, Charlie! (Groundwood) (and before thatPie in the Sky, Pie Is for Sharing andPies from Nowhere), and this year we're serving up three recent books featuring pie: Andy Harkness's Wolfboy (Bloomsbury), Shing Yin Khor's The Legend of Auntie Po (Kokila/Penguin), and Gillian McDunn's Honestly Elliott (Bloomsbury).