HOW MANY JELLY BEANS?
Author: Andrea Menotti
Illustrator: Yancey Labat
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How many jelly beans are enough? How many are too many? Aiden and Emma can’t decide. Is ten enough? How about one thousand? That’s a lot of jelly beans. But eaten over a whole year, it’s only two or three a day!
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A MILLION FISH … MORE OR LESS
Author: Patricia C. McKissack
Illustrator: Dena Schutzer
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Hugh Thomas knows that the Bayou Clapateaux is a mighty peculiar place. Why, back in 1903, Papa-Daddy and Elder Abbajon caught a turkey that weighed 500 pounds…more or less. 500 pounds?! Hugh Thomas isn’t so sure about that until he’s left alone on the bayou with only his fishing pole for company. Soon he catches three fish, and then…a million more! But after meeting up with raccoon bandits, thieving crows, and a hungry cat named Chantilly, Hugh Thomas returns home with just enough fish for breakfast…and a fantastic story, of course!
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HOW BIG IS A MILLION?
Author: Anna Milbourne
Illustrator: Serena Riglietti
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This is a brand new picture book to help children understand the concept of big numbers. Pipkin the smallest penguin is always asking questions, but what he wants to know most of all is how big is a million? So he sets off to find out, and along the way meets a hundred penguins, sees a thousand snowflakes and meets one new friend before being amazed to finally find out how big a million really is. A special fold-out poster at the end of the book shows Pipkin looking at the sky, which is printed with exactly one million stars. It is gorgeously illustrated by Serena Riglietti.
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How Much Is a Million?
Author: David M Schwartz Illustrator: Steven Kellogg
Synopsis by the author/publisher Ever wonder just what a million of something means? How about a billion? Or a trillion? Marvelosissimo the mathematical magician can teach you! How Much Is a Million? knocks complex numbers down to size in a fun, humorous way, helping children conceptualize a difficult mathematical concept. It’s a math class you’ll never forget.
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INFINITY AND ME
Author: Kate Hosford
Illustrator: Gabi Swiatkowska
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When I looked up, I shivered. How many stars were in the sky? A million? A billion? Maybe the number was as big as infinity. I started to feel very, very small. How could I even think about something as big as infinity?
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CAN YOU COUNT TO A GOOGOL?
Author: Robert E. Wells
Illustrator: Robert E. Wells
Synopsis by the author/publisher You may be able to count all the way to one hundred, but have you ever counted to a googol? It’s impossible! In this fun book of numbers, Robert E. Wells explores the wonderful world of zeros and tells how the googol came to be named.
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MILLIONS, BILLIONS & TRILLIONS: UNDERSTANDING BIG NUMBERS
Author: David A. Adler
Illustrator: Edward Miller
Synopsis by the author/publisher How long would it take to count to a billion without stopping? How many pizzas could a million dollars buy? Big numbers– like millions, billions, and trillions– are hard to visualize. In this book, the dynamic duo of David A. Adler and Edward Miller illustrate and explain these huge numbers in a lighthearted, easy-to-imagine way.
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