Angry about being giving a tangram puzzle instead of candy, trick-or-treater Greedy Pete smashes it and finds it pursuing him as it rearranges itself into various animals. Includes related math activities.
Sydnie Meltzer Kleinhenz, Marilyn Burns, Jerry Zimmerman
Paperback
(Cartwheel Books, Nov. 1, 1997)
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