Calculator Annie

Calculator Annie

by Alexander Mc Call Smith (Author)

Synopsis

No matter how hard Annie tries, she just cannot do even the simplest sums. It's so embarrassing! When she goes to the shops, she can't work out how much money to hand the shopkeeper, and she always gets 0 for her maths homework. That is, until Annie goes to sleep with a calculator under her pillow, and something very strange happens. Overnight, Annie becomes a maths maestro capable of solving problems so fast it takes people's breath away. It impresses one world-renowned maths genius so much that he decides to put Annie's powers to the ultimate test. Will Annie be up to the mathematical challenge, or will she be at sixes and sevens and end up back at square one? Prepare yourself for this brain-teasing adventure ...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
Edition: New
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 03 Jul 2006

ISBN 10: 0747580405
ISBN 13: 9780747580409
Children’s book age: 5-7 Years
Book Overview: By bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Part of a rolling programme re-establishing McCall Smith as a pre-eminent children's author The bold cover design with strong author look to be maintained throughout the series

Author Bio
Alexander McCall Smith is professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is also the author of over fifty books. These range from adult fiction to specialist titles, such as Forensic Aspects of Sleep, to a wide selection of children's books. In 1999 The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency was published. This book quickly became a bestseller and was voted one of the 'International Books of the Year and the Millennium' by the Times Literary Supplement. In America the success of the series was instant with sales exceeding two million in the USA alone. Winner of three Author of the Year awards in 2004 (British Book Awards, Booksellers' Association and Waterstone's), Bloomsbury Publishing are very proud and excited to be re-publishing Alexander's key children's books.