How Much Is a Million?
Description
“A jubilant, original picture book.” —Booklist (starred review)
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.
This classic picture book is an ALA Notable Book, a Reading Rainbow Feature Selection, and a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book for Illustration.
| This book reveals how big a bowl would be needed to hold a million goldfish, or how many years it would take to count to a million. |“Aside from being great fun, and it is, this book leads the viewer to conceptualize what at first seems inconceivable, no mean feat. A jubilant, original picture book.” - ALA Booklist (starred review)
PUBLISHER:
HarperCollins
ISBN-10:
0688040497
ISBN-13:
9.78069E+12
BINDING:
Hardback
PUBLICATION YEAR:
1985
NUMBER OF PAGES:
40
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
11.00(H) x 9.00(W) x 0.35(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
Children / juvenile
LANGUAGE:
English