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The Chase is On!

Chasing Vermeer (After Words)What do art and math have in common? Not much, you'd think. But in Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer, these two subjects come together to create a truly intriguing puzzle Petra and Calder have to solve! And as always, there's not much time to do it!

Set in the windy city of Chicago (one of my fave cities!), involving a Vermeer painting (one of my fave painters!) and lots of pentominoes (ok, NOT one of my fave puzzles!), Chasing Vermeer is one of those "interactive" books that gets your mind thinking and imagination flying!

While you're reading, create your own puzzle of pentominoes, check out the Art Institute of Chicago , or marvel at Vermeer's A Lady Writing and other paintings! It's all just a click away! And with "puzzling" illustrations by Brett Helquist (solve them while you're reading the book too!), this is one worthwhile summer read!

Truly, Tudy

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 24, 2009

    chicago rocks! the people are really friendly. I like chicago too!!!!!

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  2. AnonymousJuly 11, 2009

    The Windy City, you gotta love it. This is the best time to visit. Summer has been wonderfully mild! If you want to escape the heat, there's no better place right now. This is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about Chicago!
    >
    > If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in Chicago.
    >
    > If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you live in Chicago.
    >
    > If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in Chicago.
    >
    > If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in Chicago
    >
    > If you measure distance in hours, you live in Chicago.
    >
    > If you have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back
    again, you live in Chicago.
    >
    > If you can drive 75 mph through 2feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Chicago.
    >
    > If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you live in Chicago.
    >
    > If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in Chicago.
    >
    > If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80 and everybody is passing you, you live in Chicago.
    >
    > If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in Chicago.
    >
    > If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you live in Chicago.
    >
    > If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in Chicago.
    >
    > If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly", you live in Chicago.

    So come on home. See you in Chicago!!!

    The Molinas

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