From the Scientific American Books for Young Readers series, this book is one part children's fantasy story in which Jimmy discovers a marvelous ball that keeps shifting its shape, size, and color, and also an intriguing geometry activity book with colorful illustrations. Includes diagrams and instructions for making three-dimensional geometric figures from simple materials: thin paper plates, bobby pins, and masking tape. Full of energy, this book will appeal to kids ages 6-13. A great way to introduce a discussion of geometry. Hardcover 48pp. 1995 W.H Freeman & Co. New York.
From the dust jacket... Jimmy found a ball rolling on the ground. Isn't that strange without a hill around? Hold onto your hats -- and your paper plates, masking tape and bobby pins -- and join Jimmy on his adventure through the whole world of the ball and the constantly changing #-D shapes that are its parts. In unceonventional verse that makes leaps as surprising as the ball itself, Bradford Hansen-Smith will show you how to build from the whole into parts and open up a new way of looking at the world around you. About the author: In 1980, sculptor Bradford Hansen-Smith took a geometry class about the work of Buckminster Fuller. That class changed his sculpture and his life. He now spends much of his time conducting workshops for math and art teachers, and working with schoolchildren around North America. | 
