Celebrate Tangrams! How many tangram puzzles can you solve? It
Starts with a Book The Book to Read Aloud  Grandfather Tang’s
Story      A Tale Told in Tangrams            written by Ann
Tompert       Ann Tompert became interested in Tangrams and
began making up her own tangrams and stories about them.     
This story is based on ancient Chinese folklore characters
called fox fairies who are empowered with the powers of
transformation. The fox fairies try to outdo each other--the
first one becomes a rabbit, the other a dog who chases him, and
so on--but when the two chase each other right into danger, they
finally have to set their competition aside and pull together.
 As the story is told, each animal transformation is represented
by tangram puzzles that can be solved with a set of tans that
can be created by tracing the shapes at the back of the book.
We read the story of Grandfather Tang and made tangram animals
in our Media Center Lab and went online to solve tangram
puzzles.