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Bruce McMillan

Author of Eating Fractions

49+ Works 4,620 Members 140 Reviews

About the Author

Series

Works by Bruce McMillan

Eating Fractions (1991) 939 copies
Time To . . . (1989) 539 copies
Growing Colors (1988) 287 copies
The Baby Zoo (1992) 275 copies
Going on a Whale Watch (1992) 263 copies
Jelly Beans for Sale (1990) 215 copies
Nights of the Pufflings (1995) 210 copies
One, Two, One Pair! (1971) 197 copies
Here a chick, there a chick (1983) 163 copies
The Problem with Chickens (2005) 131 copies
Counting Wildflowers (1986) 96 copies

Associated Works

Everything Grows [sound recording] (1989) — Photographer, some editions — 258 copies
The Picture That Mom Drew (1997) 10 copies

Tagged

animals (141) baby animals (24) big book (28) birds (39) chickens (33) children (31) children's (37) clocks (34) colors (67) concepts (32) counting (104) easy (31) farm (21) fiction (64) food (76) fractions (135) Iceland (54) informational (30) math (367) money (39) nature (29) non-fiction (158) numbers (60) ocean (36) opposites (39) paperback (23) photographs (53) photography (36) picture book (159) plants (45) poetry (38) puffins (30) rhyming (23) science (111) senses (21) telling time (29) time (105) vegetables (22) whales (44) zoo (33)

Common Knowledge

Gender
male
Places of residence
Shapleigh, Maine, USA
Education
University of Maine (BS, Biology)
Short biography
[from Puffins Climb, Penguins Rhyme]
Bruce McMillan helped band this puffin in Iceland for study. He also traveled to Antarctica to observe penguins. Mr. McMillan is the award-winning author and photo-illustrator of more than thirty books for children. In addition to speaking at conferences and elementary schools around the country, he teaches university courses about writing, illustrating, and publishing children's books.

Fascinated by both birds and minimalist verse, his goals for this book were to share the habits and habitats of puffins and penguins and to inspire children to created their own minimalist verse. He lives and watches birds in Shapleigh, Maine.

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Reviews

EducatingParents.org rating: Approved
 
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MamaBearLendingDen | 4 other reviews | Dec 2, 2023 |
Adorable pictures in this nicely informative book.
 
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FamiliesUnitedLL | 5 other reviews | Jun 17, 2023 |
this book is a good introduction to counting with money. The reason for this is because when you count the money whatever you have you can get that many jelly beans. I would use this in my kindergarten class for math because you learn about money and also you can do the activity while you read. and you can use whatever type of substance you want rice, beans and more. Along with that it can be super engaging because it is a book about money and candy.
 
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cflores21 | 14 other reviews | Apr 26, 2023 |
Illustrations make the book and this one struggles. And the text was slightly brusque. Made me wonder if it was a translation.
 
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OutOfTheBestBooks | 7 other reviews | Sep 24, 2021 |

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Statistics

Works
49
Also by
2
Members
4,620
Popularity
#5,452
Rating
½ 3.5
Reviews
140
ISBNs
126
Languages
4

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