Double Those Wheels

This is a wonderful picture book for little ones. Monkey has to make a special pizza delivery, but has transportation problems along the way. Children, often enamored with all things vehicular, will enjoy everything from bicycles to trucks to trains in this book. Not only is the text playful and the pictures whimsical, the story introduces little ones to math through the doubling of the number 2 in a most delightful manner.

This fun book tells the story of a pizza-delivery monkey who runs into transportation problems while trying to deliver pizza to a children's birthday party.The author uses her story to cleverly introduce young readers to powers of two. As many parents will know, binary (base two) numbers are fundamental to computer technology. So this book, in addition to being very entertaining, offers a very early introduction to a key computer concept.The illustrations are great, and the story is very cute. This a wonderful book for any preschooler!