Stay curious. At every age.
Pebblewood Press makes two kinds of books — picture books that turn math into a story, and a parent’s guide that turns homework into a conversation. Different ages, same habit: lead with curiosity.
Picture books · grades K–5
The What If Books
Pebbles & Teddy stories built around real mathematical ideas — generalization, pattern, proof — hidden inside everyday kid moments. Every book ends with a page for grown-ups and kids to work through together.
“Was Pebbles’s rule reasonable? Why or why not?”
For parents · grades K–8
“I Don’t Get Math”
A parent’s guide to helping with homework when the way math is taught has changed — but the way you learned it hasn’t. By a thirty-year math educator, one kitchen-table moment per chapter.
“What is this problem actually asking you to find?”
About the author
Patty Stephens has spent thirty years in K–12 math classrooms — as a teacher, an instructional coach, and a National Board Certified educator. She’s also a parent who has had the same homework-table moments her books are about. Pebblewood Press grew from a simple conviction: kids are mathematical thinkers long before anyone hands them a worksheet — and their grown-ups deserve better tools to keep up.