BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS, HS – ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: SOME
One day a child finds a colorful cube in a dusty, forgotten box and with their friends, dives down the rabbit hole of fun facts about what the cube is, who invented it, and all the ways you can move it.
If you’ve ever spent time trying to solve a Rubik’s cube, you need to read this book to learn the history. Ernő Rubik invented his Magic Cube in the early 70s and sold hundreds of millions of puzzles. The author does a great job of switching between the history and the math of the puzzle and the story of the three friends playing with the toy, trying to figure it out. The text itself is quite dense, as it covers a lot of material, but the illustrations are so interesting. They feel retro themselves, a sort of callback to the picture books of the 70s. I think this would highly appeal to a small group of students.
Kiera, ELA teacher, #bookswithbeddes
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