How Many Jelly Beans: A Giant Book of Giant Numbers

(Hardback)

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How many jelly beans are enough How many are too many Aiden and Emma can't decide. Is 10 enough How about 1,000 That's a lot of jelly beans. But eaten over a whole year, it's only two or three a day. This giant picture book offers kids a fun and easy way to understand large numbers. Starting with 10, each page shows more and more colourful sweets leading up to a giant fold-out surprise-ONE MILLION JELLY BEANS! With bright illustrations and an irresistible extra-large format,How Many Jelly Beans makes learning about big numbers absolutely scrumptious!

Reviews

An eminently child-friendly exploration of an ever-intriguing subject - Kirkus Reviews
Bright illustrations and a sassy text add up to serious fun - Education.com
For all our obsessive teaching of the basic digits, children are still mostly fascinated with the really big ones, the millions, zillions and gajillions - something this ingenious jumbo-size book delivers- The New York Times
This fresh approach to huge numbers should get kids thinking big time - Booklist, Starred Review
Utterly delightful - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Author Bio

Andrea Menotti is a parent, author, former teacher, and book editor. She and Yancey Labat live in Ithaca, New York, with their daughter. Yancey Labat got his start at Marvel Comics and has illustrated many books for children, including the Worst-Case Scenario Ultimate Adventure series.