How Big Is a Million?

by Anna Milbourne

Book Overview

A million is a very big number. But exactly how big? Pipkin the penguin wants to know just that. Come with him on a journey of discovery and you can see for yourself. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0545115191
• ISBN13: 9780545115193
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Cute book lets kids see what a million of something really looks like

I read A Million Dots and was so disappointed that you have to go through the entire book to see all million of them. How Big is a Million is the beautifully illustrated story of a little penguin who wants to see for himself what a million of something looks like. So he goes on a little adventure: first his mom catches 10 fish for breakfast, then he finds 100 penguins huddled together, then there is a lovely two-page spread with 1,000 snowflakes. But still, he hasn't seen a million. So he goes back home, a bit dejected, and then his mother has him look up in the sky where he sees 1 million stars. And there they all are, on a gigantic poster tucked into a pocket in the back of the book. One day we'll put it on the wall where the boys can look at them all easily as the poster is much too big to hold in your lap.

Great children's concept book

I bought two of these books. One to keep and one for my son's preschool. It is a cute story and really helps small children picture quantity. The poster at the end will amaze the parents as well.

Wonderful story!

This story is adorable and it is great to be able to actually "show" a child how big ten, a hundred, a thousand, and a million is. Very cute!!