The Fortune Teller's Spoon by Paige Peterson

The level of reading was definitely beyond what she could do at six, but I don't think it would pose any problem for an eight or nine year old to read themselves. She did get better at that after we went through a few examples. cats eat fish and fish are blue, therefore cats eat blue things. T didn't have any problem following the logic until Chapter Five, where the idea of transitivity (obviously not labeled as such) was introduced, i.e. So we'll take five out of five for the rating.Īs for me, who is clearly not the audience the book is going for (unless secretly when they say kids seven to nine they mean thirty-four year olds with advanced mathematics degrees), obviously the enjoyment I got out of it was reading it to T. I wish there were more like them in the book that I could solve all of it by myself. Her thoughts on the puzzle on the last two pages: It wasn't too hard for me. I liked that the pictures were in black and white so I could colour them later. The problems weren't too hard so I could do it. The best part was getting to help solve the mystery.

The artist reminded me of daddy because he kept eating and I liked that the doll could talk.

Here are her thoughts on the story: The book was funny.

The book suggests ages seven through nine, and T is six, but both her parents have PhD's in math, so I figure she's probably math-literate enough to go through the book, provided I read it to her. When I saw a giveaway for a matrix logic book for kids, I thought this was a perfect opportunity to force share logic puzzles with her.

I learned how to do matrix logic puzzles in third or fourth grade, a teacher giving them to me to keep me busy when I'd finished my work. Since the only game I've played reliably in the past, let's say eight months has been a logic time killers game on the iPad and before that I dragged around a logic puzzle book with me, filling in the boxes while watching movies with T on the basement couch, let's just say I am a fan of logic.

The Fortune Teller's Spoon by Paige Peterson