title: Funny Fairy Tale Math: 15 Rib-Tickling, Reproducible Stories with Companion Word Problems That Build Essential Math Skills and Meet the New NCTM Standards
author: Betsy Franco
description: Betsy Franco is a math expert, former primary teacher, and popular children's poet. An educational writer and consultant, she is the author of a number of books for teachers and kids. Betsy makes her home in Palo Alto, CA.
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  Copyright © 2011 by Robin Mather  
  Illustrations copyright © 2011 by Barry Fitzgerald
  
  
  All rights reserved.  
  Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown
  Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.  
  [www.crownpublishing.com](http://www.crownpublishing.com)  
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  Ten Speed Press and the Ten Speed Press colophon are registered trademarks of
  Random House, Inc.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Mather, Robin.  
  The feast nearby : how I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by
  keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on
  $40 a week) / Robin Mather.  
  p. cm.  
  Summary: “A charming ode (with reci