TY - BOOK AU - Stephens, Ann Marie, AU - Harney,Jennifer TI - CATastrophe!: a story of patterns SN - 9781635923216 AV - QA445.5 .S74 2021 U1 - 516.15 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Honesdale, Pennsylvania : PB - Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane, KW - Geometric patterns KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Pattern perception KW - Mathematics KW - Kittens KW - Cats KW - Picture books KW - lcgft KW - Instructional and educational works KW - Creative nonfiction N2 - A crew of hungry kittens and their captain head to the lake to catch some dinner, but the fish have surprises in store for them. Even before the cats encounter the fish, they run into trouble. What happens when confused kitties paddle every which way? Or when they all lean in the same direction? A pattern is needed to avoid a catastrophe! Patterns are the foundation on which math is built. Using rhythm, wordplay, and countable characters, CATastrophe! shows what patterns can do. Includes backmatter to deepen readers' understanding and challenge them to find more patterns in this book and in our world. Search the illustrations for a dragonfly and worm that each appear twenty times ER -