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105th out of 121 books
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How Big Is It?
by
Ben Hillman
A big book all about bigness!
This BIG title removes the confusion of the abstract by teaching size through eye-catching juxtaposition in "oh wow!" images. For instance, any idea about the size of the mysterious Giant Squid of the deep? Sure, you could read that it's 59.5 ft. long. While that sounds impressive enough, it's a little abstract. However, when you see a full-col...more
This BIG title removes the confusion of the abstract by teaching size through eye-catching juxtaposition in "oh wow!" images. For instance, any idea about the size of the mysterious Giant Squid of the deep? Sure, you could read that it's 59.5 ft. long. While that sounds impressive enough, it's a little abstract. However, when you see a full-col...more
Hardcover, 48 pages
Published
September 1st 2007
by Scholastic Reference
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How Big Is It? is an informational book that compares incredibly large items to ordinary everyday items. For example, the world's largest spider is compared to the outer rim of a dinner plate; the world's largest telescope is compared to the height of the Eiffel Tower. Students would truly understand the greatness of these items as they are compared to seemingly ordinary recognizable items. Each page is filled with large photographs that depict the immense size of these.
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Dec 20, 2008
Amanda
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
dreamers and enthusiasts
Recommended to Amanda by:
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This book made me realize that I have grabby hands and am attracted to sparkly objects. It greeted me from out the staff corridor at work, sitting innocently on the children's book shelf.
But it was full of interesting big things. The biggest polar bear stood up at 12 feet, the giraffe eats acacia leaves, the solar system has huge stars that are millions of light years away so that if they exploded it would look like they were still there for millions of years even if they weren't. Pyramids, vol...more
But it was full of interesting big things. The biggest polar bear stood up at 12 feet, the giraffe eats acacia leaves, the solar system has huge stars that are millions of light years away so that if they exploded it would look like they were still there for millions of years even if they weren't. Pyramids, vol...more
This is the kind of book that I would have been obsessed with as a child. Computer-generated photos use perspective and ratio to show giant things (a giant squid, the Goliath Bird-eating Spider, the Arecibo Radio Telescope) in relation to something else (a two-story house, a dinner plate, and the Eiffel Tower, respectively) to show just how *giant* the giant things are. Interesting and humorous information can be found in the sidebars. Awesome stuff, and a must-booktalk for tweens on school visi...more
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--grades 2-8
--bigness is sometime hard to comprehend when you have no reference for comparison.
--author takes things students know the size of and compares them with objects they may not know.
--Great Pyramid of Giza is 8 train-cars tall
--Polar Bear on a basketball court
-- Steve Jenkins also has some great books for comparing speeds, size, and weight with common objects.
--bigness is sometime hard to comprehend when you have no reference for comparison.
--author takes things students know the size of and compares them with objects they may not know.
--Great Pyramid of Giza is 8 train-cars tall
--Polar Bear on a basketball court
-- Steve Jenkins also has some great books for comparing speeds, size, and weight with common objects.
The amazing photos detailing precisely how large an object being discussed makes this book. The side by side comparison within each well done photo allows the reader to envision the scale. My favorite? The Ice Age Glacier in comparison to the skyline of Chicago. Stunning!
i really like this book. I think it had some really good facts and pictures that children would think is interesting. i think this is a great book to have in the classroom for children to look at. I wish i had this book when i was younger.
Aug 31, 2010
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Huge photo spreads and minimal text make this just right for a little browser--a great way to illustrate actual size. Check out the polar bear, and the dinner-plate sized tarantula.
Amazing info about how big things can b. Googol waffles is 10 billion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion times the size of the universe.
Pretty cool stuff. Hard to sit and do through one or two readings. Full of interesting facts about big things.
So many cool facts and illustrations. I would've loved this book as a kid. Oh let's face it... I love it now!
When I was reading this book, I saw a picture of a snake and i showed it to my friend and she freaked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-PB+j23
-PB+j23
Interesting stuff. Don't read it Jana it will freak you out. For Caleb's eyes only!
Wonderful illustrations inserting the subject in a scene for size comparisons! Great teaching book for kids - whether they are visual learners or just love reading facts in text. Fourth and fifth graders will appreciate the book as a whole, but younger kids can learn the size comparisons from the visual art alone, if you "read" them the tale by abridging the book, in your own words.
Fabulous fun! My five-year old grandsons adored this book as much as I did. Photo shopped photos compare BIG things to familiar objects, giving kids a really tangible sense of just how big is big. There is a polar bear standing next to a basketball hoop, a flying dinosaur compared to a jet plane and a huge spider on a dinner plate. The images jump off the page and the text is humorous and fascinating. We've been reading this over and over ;-) Great all ages book!
this book was funny when i saw the polor bear!
A good book for elementary. The altered pictures were fun and some good information.
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