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How Many Jelly Beans?
Hardcover
Published
2012
by Chronicle Books
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The giant-sized counting book, How Many Jelly Beans?, begins with Emma and Aiden being asked how many jelly beans they would like to have. Both children start with considerably small numbers, but gradually work their way up to 1 million jelly beans. Each set of jelly beans is accompanied with an illustration of the number of jelly beans described in the set. The children, along with their dog, play with grandiose ideas such as eating 5,000 jelly beans in one year and determining how many jelly...more
It all starts when Emma and Aiden are asked how many jelly beans they would like. They start off small, ten, twenty, twenty-five. But then it becomes a jelly bean competition! If Aiden wants fifty than Emma wants seventy-five! Soon the competitors are asking for hundreds and then thousands of jelly beans! Finally, the two decide on a million jelly beans and the illustration of those one million jelly beans is a ten page, double-sided foldout!
This oversized book begins simply enough with small nu...more
This oversized book begins simply enough with small nu...more
Genre: PB12
This book is very easy to follow along with and easy to read, but very little plot to it. I still liked the story because even without a plot the real story it tells is more important. This book helps children began to become interested in math in a fun and engaging way. IT is hard to always find books that teach math concepts, but still make it a fun read and this book was perfect for showing math. I love that it starts with Emma wanting 10 jelly beans and Aiden wanting 20, the rest...more
This book is very easy to follow along with and easy to read, but very little plot to it. I still liked the story because even without a plot the real story it tells is more important. This book helps children began to become interested in math in a fun and engaging way. IT is hard to always find books that teach math concepts, but still make it a fun read and this book was perfect for showing math. I love that it starts with Emma wanting 10 jelly beans and Aiden wanting 20, the rest...more
Boy, I tell you. You get a kid and suddenly you find yourself scheming all these crazy schemes. “I’m going to get my kid to like vegetables!” “I’m going to get my kid to appreciate classical music!” “I’m going to get my kid to like math!” Crazy, right? I mean the first two seem doable, but the third? I’m an English major, guys. What are the chances that I’m even capable of instilling a math love in my offspring? To the rescue comes a new generation of picture books for kids with math-centric con...more
In fourth grade, my teacher had a jar of jellybeans on a table in the back of the classroom. Next to it, she had another jar, this one for students to put in pieces of paper guessing the number of jellybeans in the jar. Whoever guessed closest to the actual number ended up winning a prize.
I never won (I'm terrible at estimating), but How Many Jelly Beans? brought back happy memories of fourth grade. It doesn't have a plot, really, but is just a boy and girl (and a dog) having a conversation abo...more
I never won (I'm terrible at estimating), but How Many Jelly Beans? brought back happy memories of fourth grade. It doesn't have a plot, really, but is just a boy and girl (and a dog) having a conversation abo...more
Big numbers are hard for children. This is a big book to help with big numbers.
You can see five things. You can hold five things (probably) in your hand. But what about five hundred things? Five thousand? A hundred thousand? A million?
This big book (librarians should be warned that it will not fit in a child's backpack and has foldout pages that will tear easily, but please don't let that stop you from acquiring it for your collection) uses a competitive brother and sister to allow children to v...more
You can see five things. You can hold five things (probably) in your hand. But what about five hundred things? Five thousand? A hundred thousand? A million?
This big book (librarians should be warned that it will not fit in a child's backpack and has foldout pages that will tear easily, but please don't let that stop you from acquiring it for your collection) uses a competitive brother and sister to allow children to v...more
When Emma chooses ten jellybeans and Aiden wants twenty, they each try to outdo each other with how many of the sweet candies they want. The numbers get larger and larger, along with the digital illustrations until finally they reach a number almost impossible to imagine--one million. The final page shows just that--one million jelly beans, ever so tiny that they are just colored spots on the pages that must be flipped and unfolded in order for all those candies to be seen. One of the things I l...more
Finally, a children's counting book that makes perfect, simple sense without being too easy. In this oversize book illustrated in every color of the rainbow, readers begin to grasp the concept of large numbers such as 1,000 and 10,000, numbers that are often excluded in counting-themed picture books. Using jelly beans as a guide, readers will find themselves amazed when they pull out the large fold-out page at the end containing a representation of what 1,000,100 of the chewy little candies woul...more
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How much is a thousand? One hundred thousand? A million? Such big numbers can seem abstract to kids (and adults for that matter), because they never face them in their real life. How Many Jelly Beans? by Andrea Menotti attempts to fix this gap in knowledge by showing the depth of numbers with the best of counting tools: jelly beans.
“How many jelly beans would you like, Emma?” asks the faceless parent. “Ten!” is the response. Brother Aiden asks for twenty. This begin...more
How much is a thousand? One hundred thousand? A million? Such big numbers can seem abstract to kids (and adults for that matter), because they never face them in their real life. How Many Jelly Beans? by Andrea Menotti attempts to fix this gap in knowledge by showing the depth of numbers with the best of counting tools: jelly beans.
“How many jelly beans would you like, Emma?” asks the faceless parent. “Ten!” is the response. Brother Aiden asks for twenty. This begin...more
I cannot count how many dismal number and math books I have read over the years. I’m lucky enough to have a mathematical kid, but finding books that he would enjoy was painful. Many math books are a lot more about concept than about being fun to read. Well, not this one! This one winningly mixes math with candy, so that even non-mathematical kids will give it a try. Aiden and Emma are just like most siblings, they are trying to get more than each other. So when Emma asks for 10 jelly beans, Aide...more
I wanted to like this book. I really did. But I couldn't. It is two kids trying to one up each other as they decide how many jelly beans they want and then could eat. With the gigantic fold out as the final page of one million jelly beans. I think the only reason our library copy of the fold out isn't torn yet is that I was the first one to check this out. A book with pictures of various amounts of jelly beans that kids will eat over the course of a year. Yeah. No thanks.
So much fun! Great visuals, great humor, great way to convey counting large numbers. I mean, how many kids can relate to the question, "Can you really have too many jelly beans?" Would have totally gotten five stars if it hadn't been for that CRAZY big last fold-out page. I love how crazy big it is, but it's just falling apart in our library. I wish they had thought of a more durable way to demonstrate this...
This GIGANTIC book will grabs kids’ attention instantaneously. In the simple narrative, two kids, Aiden and Emma, debate how many jelly beans are too many jellybeans? The bright multicolored pictures of jellybeans help kids understand giant numbers. I can’t remember the last time I had so much fun with a math book. The surprise ending will leave kids in awe! Perfect for preschoolers and kindergartners.
Any book on numbers that gets me to laugh out loud while reading it deserves a 5 star. Brother and sister team (Aidan and Emma) are in a typical race to have the most - in this case - jellybeans. Emma starts with 10 and then Aidan has to go with 20. They debate throughout the story if 100 or 500 or 1000 jelly beans are too many to eat (even in a year). While the numbers are increasing the size of the jelly beans are decreasing to allow for the number of jelly beans to be drawn on the page. It is...more
Menotti and Labat present a colorful picture book in which young readers can practice counting skills, and older readers can better understand the relationship between small and large numbers, as well as how large 1,000,000 actually is. Note to librarians - this book contains a LARGE fold-out, which could be problematic when checking out to young, eager readers. Expect to repair this book often.
"Is it possible to have too many jelly beans?"
"No."
I am a bit worried that the essential fold-out page at the end won't last long in the library, but this is a clever, engaging, and effective book that deals with counting to numbers larger than ten. Gives a lesson and tells a story kids can relate to.
"No."
I am a bit worried that the essential fold-out page at the end won't last long in the library, but this is a clever, engaging, and effective book that deals with counting to numbers larger than ten. Gives a lesson and tells a story kids can relate to.
Dec 26, 2012
Molly
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An easy to read way for children to grasp large numbers. Previously, I have used A Million Dots by Clements to illustrate how many things come and go from our library in a year. This one would work nicely as well. The giant fold out is precarious to open, but makes a big impact.
This is a fun book to teach first graders how to share equally. These children are given a certain amount of jelly beans, and they must figure out how to equally share after several different scenarios. It is a fun and adventurous book for students to read and get in some math practice.
I really love this book. Great illustrations, really wonderful comparisons of numbers and size of other objects like how many jelly beans are as tall as a 10 story building-- goes though what would 100, 500, 1000 + jelly beans look like. Great for K to 1st grade and learning place balue
Helps you visualize how big certain numbers are by displaying 10,000 jelly beans on the page, for example (starts with a handful of 5 and builds from there). The last page folds out into an 8 or 10 page spread displaying a million jelly beans. Pretty awesome!
This giant book was giant fun! Simple yet colorful illustration showing the differences in number quantities in an easy to understand way for young readers. The last page was a most impressive large fold out that kids will love and "wow" at.
PB 40: This book is so colorful and helps children want to learn about counting and adding. It would be helpful to incorporate this book into a math lesson for probably kindergarten or 1st grade just to introduce them into math.
Emma and Aiden practice simple math concepts in an oversize book that uses jelly beans to neatly and clearly visualize large numbers. The ending felt a little flat to me, but this has definite potential for classrooms.
Teachers are going to like this book to use with their math groups. WOW! The visuals are great for this giant book of giant numbers. Only concern is the foldout pages ~ how long will they last in a library????
Great design, fun kids, but for my money, if I had to choose between this and Great Estimations, I'd pick the later. A CAVEAT: I read the OverDrive ebook version of the text, which may have impacted my experience.
Awesome to incorporate into math time. Could even be used to work on place value for upper grades like 4th and 5th. Fantastic visuals for the visual learners about how much the large numbers really represent.
Age: Kindergarten - 3rd grade
Would you believe that this book holds 1,116,780 jelly beans? Crazy, I know, but they're in there. A fun way to learn proportions and large numbers.
Would you believe that this book holds 1,116,780 jelly beans? Crazy, I know, but they're in there. A fun way to learn proportions and large numbers.
Interesting concept book that illustrates big numbers, but the size is unwieldy and the big pull out page at the end is very awkward for classrooms, library, and read aloud.
Cool book and fun to read, but that last page is a little too big. Great demonstration of a million, but I can see why the pages in our copy of the book are torn.
I love this book...Makes very large numbers and quantities much more concrete. Would be great for teaching place value because it gives students an idea of what adding one more zero (or place) does to a number.
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Andrea Menotti learned about jelly beans and big numbers at the candy-obsessed age of seven. Her parents promised her a special treat when she had refrained from sucking her thumb for three weeks. She chose a bag full of what seemed to be an almost never-ending supply of her favorite sweet, jelly beans. Over the days to come, she paid secret visits to the closet where the bag was hidden and was su...more
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Jun 03, 2012 09:28pm