Reddit reviews The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

:) Hey, finally some constructive criticism! I really appreciate you taking the time to flesh all that out. My focus was definitely a bit too much on the "story" part of this rather than its usefulness as a tool. This might have more value as a "kids-book-for-adults" like The Dot and the Line.

Don't know how useful it would be, but a couple of things popped into my head as soon as I saw you were looking for math in a story. The first is a short story called The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics, by Norton Juster. It was turned into an award winning short cartoon. There's not a whole lot of actual math in it, but it mentions how the line learns to form curves and shapes and everything a line is useful for in math, to win the affection of a dot. Pretty cute stuff.

Here is the link on Amazon to buy the book.

Here is the link to the cartoon.

After you mentioned English as well, I thought The Phantom Tollbooth might be more appropriate. Also written by Norton Juster, it's a story of a fantastic fantasy land, where two brothers, King Azaz the Unabridged and the Mathemagician, are feuding because one thinks letters are better and the other thinks numbers are better. This book is an easy read, and it's absolutely hilarious. Because the books are by the same author, and often bought together, you can find a link to The Phantom Tollbooth on the page for The Dot and the Line.

I hope this helps, and if you haven't read these books but you can't use them for your project, I suggest you read them anyway for fun. They are two of my all-time favorite stories.

The dot and the line. And here is a perfect short film that goes with it.

Or The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip . It's a great little story for both children and adults with great illustrations.

My Google-Fu isn't that great, but a simple search yields only amazon prints and a scanned copy.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dot-Line-Romance-Lower-Mathematics/dp/1587170663

http://www.craghead.com/books/thedotandtheline.html

Here's a short one:

My parents met in 1957, when my mom was just out of high school. They dated bit but then my mom dumped my dad because he was "boring". They went their separate ways, met other people, got married, my dad had a kid, and finally, they both got divorced (or separated). My mom's mom heard about my dad getting a divorce (my mom was separated at the time) so she told my mom and then invited my dad over for Christmas dinner. He showed up at 11:00 AM. For dinner. Real subtle, dad!

Anyway, they started dating again, and as soon as the ink was dry on my mom's divorce (5 months later), they married. That was just over 41 years ago.

The Dot and the Line - used is fine. (thanks for the reminder /u/chowderkirk!)

Can I show you a love story? The Dot and the Line is my favorite love story. It's so sweet and quirky.

It's also a storybook