Logic Safari (Book 2) [Paperback]

Bonnie Risby (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1593630905 | ISBN-13: 978-1593630904 | Publication Date: June 1, 2005

This safari will send students on an expedition that will result in hours of good thinking and unbridled enthusiasm. As enthusiasm soars so do the levels of thinking skills engaged. Students love these deductive logic puzzles so much that they beg to do them, little realizing that they are building important reading comprehension and thinking skills.

Teachers love these puzzles because of their ease of use in multicurricular parallels and their effortlessness in fitting into pullout programs of limited duration. Each motivating puzzle includes an introduction with student-related topics, clues, a grid, and illustrations. The goal in Logic Safari is to hunt down the clues, sort, analyze, and combine them into the correct solution. Each book represents an ever-increasing challenge to students while scenarios remain fresh, evoking renewed eagerness. The size of the grids is an indication of difficulty.

This is the second in a three-book series of deductive logic puzzles.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Prufrock Press puts out super logic resources! I've had the pleasure of using five of their logic/critical thinking books for elementary children and would recommend them to anyone . . . My kids LOVE these. We typically take one day a week during math time as a logic day. Puzzlers like these are some of the resources I'll use and they literally beg me for logic days . . . Black and white illustrations make the pages attractive to my children, while thorough, but uncomplicated explanations and clues are attractive to me. --Cindy West, The Curriculum Choice - December 14, 2009

About the Author

Bonnie Lou Risby grew up in the Illinois woodlands atop the limestone bluffs across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. These woods were her playground where she and her siblings camped out, played detective, and enjoyed the beauty of the outdoors in every season. After attending college at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, she taught school in Columbia, IL, for 13 years. She has taught elementary school, middle school, and high school, concentrating on the subjects of French, English, and gifted education. When Bonnie helped write the grant to establish Columbia's Gifted Program in the early 1970s, there were few materials readily available that fit well with a one-period per week pullout program.

After the birth of her son, Bonnie retired from teaching and joined a family and marriage counseling practice for 12 years, continuing to write and create logic books in her spare moments. Retired from her therapy practice, Bonnie now works in a family business with her husband and son. Her office is in her home in Ballwin, MO, where Bonnie and her faithful pug dog, Francy, can be found most days. Bonnie has continued to write classroom books, chapter books, magazine articles, and books for young adults.

Besides writing, Bonnie loves taking float trips down Ozark streams, biking, long walks with Francy, gardening, family history, and travel.

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Prufrock Press (June 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593630905
• ISBN-13: 978-1593630904
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,212,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #23 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Nonfiction > Education > Education Theory > Decision Making & Problem Solving

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My 9-year-old loves this book!, October 8, 2008

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Tiffany Kimball "TiffanyMalia" (Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Logic Safari (Book 1) (Paperback)

Logic is something that is often over-looked in education so I ordered this book for my nine-year-old. He loves it. I would recommend this book for ages 7-8. The lessons are a bit too easy for my son, but he enjoys the puzzles. I will order a level above next time.

This is a great tool to build logic and reasoning skills in young children.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but Not the Best, July 9, 2011

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Cuckoomamma - See all my reviews

This review is from: Logic Safari (Book 1) (Paperback)

I'm somewhat torn in this review because I love logic, and as both a mom and a teacher, I feel that logic is extremely important for young children to be exposed to. I ordered this for my daughter who was 8 at the time. While it a little too easy for her, it was an introduction to logic, and she enjoyed it. I would recommend copying the page so that you can reuse the book with another child or have the child complete it again at a later date, if they had difficulty.

Not too long ago we purchased the set of Perplexors, and these have a superior set up. Similar to Logic Safari, there is a brief story with all the clues. However, there are bands of categories where you cross off your answers to each question individually in Perplexors. In Logic Safari, the child has to be able to use a grid. I find it so much easier for a child to work with the set up like that of the Perplexors. I grew up using the Logic Safari model and could become confused at times.

Other than the difference in models, the book is a quality book. While it is a little short, I find anything that we enjoy is too short!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great mental exercise!, December 16, 2009

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Mom of four (Maryland) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Logic Safari (Book 1) (Paperback)

At first my 6 year old had trouble with the basic concept of solving these puzzles, but she quickly got the hang of it and now zips through them with pleasure. Her initial trouble was in realizing that a statement such as "Daralynn, the boy with the yo-yo, and the girl with the jump rope..." does NOT mean that Daralynn is the boy with the yo-yo. The book has 29 single page puzzles of increasing difficulty. The first six lessons have 3 pairs to match (it's Kevin who had the yo-yo), the rest have 4.