It's the story of Rani, a clever girl who outsmarts a very selfish raja and saves her village in India. When offered a reward for a good deed, she asks only for one grain of rice, doubled each day for 30 days. Remember your math? That's lots of rice: enough to feed a village for a good long time--and to teach a greedy raja a lesson.
Review by www.amazon.com/One-Grain-Rice-Mathematical-Folktale
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale, illustrated and written by Demi. New York: Scholastic, 1997.
This is a great multi-cultural picture book for a classroom, because not only does it make its readers think mathematically, it shows that greed is prevalent in all countries- not just in the U.S. This also involves the country of India, which represents India's form of royalty and government.
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