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When you are surrounded by people who don’t read much, you often feel the need to show them why reading matters. Books by Patricia Polacco do that beautifully for us—especially knowing that she herself struggled with Dyslexia until she was fourteen. Some of her books are centred on reading and books, and this is one such book that explores the power of reading.

This book is the first and only child-friendly biography we have read about a mathematician. The story goes like this.... Paul Erdos lived in Budapest, Hungary, with his mama. His mother was a maths teacher, which was one of the reasons he loved maths. When she went to work, she used to leave Paul with Fraulein, the caretaker. Fraulien was a rule maker who established rules for everything, including when to eat, read, sleep, and other things. Paul had a dislike for rules. So Paul started...

With languages, you are at home everywhere. So what does learning a new language do?