Amazon Amazon.com Amazon.com Category:  Children Publisher: Create Space ISBN-10:  1470124777 Pages: 50 Copyright: March 17, 2012 ISBN-13: 9781470124779 Creative fun for all ages. Solve 18 tangrams and word puzzles; then create your own creatures and riddles, too! The Tangram Zoo and Word Puzzles Too! by Bette A. Stevens is a resource for multicultural and interdisciplinary studies in the classroom or at home. Integrates Math (measurement and geometry) and Language Arts (research and writing) for elementary and middle school students, while presenting a few historical facts about tangrams. Tangrams and word puzzles (riddles/po­etry) encourage students to have fun while they’re learning, and then to demonstrate what they’ve learned. Includes ideas for home/school/home school projects. Tangram outlines, with rhyming riddles as clues, are even labeled for coloring for preschoolers. Fun for the whole classroom/family!   Excerpt (tangram outline of zoo animal) I eat all my dinners in the salty sea, where algae makes my feathers turn as pink as pink can be! Color me pink or white and pink. (tangram outline of zoo animal) Upon my soft, bare back you'll find my nifty mobile home. That thick and sturdy shell you see is made of scaly bone. Color me green.

Short, but good puzzles and a neat idea
5.0 out of 5 stars Short, but good puzzles and a neat idea., March 30, 2012
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This book is only 50 pages long. There are only 18 puzzles, since there is a riddle on one page and the corresponding picture on the adjacent page. These were fun, so I wish there had been more pages.

The idea is very neat, as all 18 tangrams are animals. Looking at the picture and reading the riddle, you try to guess the animal. The main puzzle is to make the tangram from the 7 basic shapes. All of the puzzles have answers at the back, that clearly show how each animal was made and which animal it is.

All of the tangram animals look pretty cool. They are also a good challenge of visual skills to try to make these tangrams.

This book is mainly a tangram book, but partly a riddle book and partly a coloring book, too. Each tangram can be colored.

This is just a book, it didn't come with any shapes. But tangram puzzles are easy to find, and if you have one or buy one, these are good puzzles to use it with. This book also shows you how to make your own tangram pieces without buying the puzzle. You can copy the cut-out tangram square of the book onto cardboard, then cut out the pieces, for example.