Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Keep on Wondering!

One of the beautiful thing about spending time with children is seeing the world through their eyes - their amazement, curiosity and wonder is inspiring. How Big is a Million? by Anna Milbourne has a little penguin wondering about this mysteriously large number, 'a million.'

Pipkin takes off one day to find out how big one million really is, but while he finds some other big numbers - one hundred, one thousand - he comes home at the end of the day disappointed that didn't find one million. His mother has a good answer though (of course!), and a beautiful surprise ending. Let's just say my daughter's jaw dropped when we opened the huge poster that comes at the end of the book.

How Big is a Million? is fun to read at home and would also be great to have in a preschool classroom, on the shelf and for a group read!

Other fun 'How' books: