Place for Zero
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Written by Angeline Sparagna LoPresti Illustrated by Phyllis Hornung Paperback 32 pages; 9.25 x 8.5 in. Publisher: Charlesbridge (July 2003) ISBN: 1570911967   Sometimes you have to take risks to really count. Zero is all alone in the land of Digitaria. He can't play Addemup with the other numbers, because he has nothing to add. Join Zero as he goes on a journey to discover his place. His quest takes him from the mysterious workshop of Count Infinity to the palace of King Multiplus, where Zero meets a stranger who looks surprisingly familiar. As Zero searches to find his place, he learns of his additive and multiplicative identities and then establishes his place value. ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR: Angeline Sparagna LoPresti, a native New Yorker, taught math to second through eighth graders for twenty-five years. Prior to her teaching career, she was a medical research assistant at the Department of Bacteriology at Cornell University Medical School. Now retired, Mrs. LoPresti occupies her leisure time with indoor gardening, reading, cooking, and photography. Phyllis Hornung grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, had a very happy childhood and, of course, has been drawing since a very early age.  She attended the Columbus College of Art & Design where she graduated magna cum laude with a BFA in Illustration in 1999.