Can You Count to a Googol?

By Morrison Isaac Swift

Book Overview

2000 Gold Seal Award, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio
A Best Book for Children 2001, Science Books & Film

You may be able to count all the way to one hundred, but have you ever counted to a googol? It's impossible! In this fun book of numbers, Robert E. Wells explores the wonderful world of zeros and tells how the googol came to be named.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807510610
• ISBN13: 9780807510612
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 10.4" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

Very fun

An excellent book for the math or number-lover! It's fun and teaches the concept of multiplying by 10 to the nth-degree.

Educational & Fun

Wonderfully entertaining book of math and numbers! it truly inspires the imagination. I highly recommend it. You'll enjoy it too! Learning made fun!

Great Fun With Big Numbers!

I read this book to my son and daughter when they were 6 and 4 years old. They were, at the time, obsessed with big numbers, like billions, trillions, and more. They were fascinated with the concept of the number One Google, and this book's fun and detailed visuals were the perfect "food" to feed their hunger for numbers. A must-read for exploring math with your curious children.

Fabulous book!

My 5 year old son is fascinated by this book! He loves science and nature, and really enjoys all of the Robert Wells books we have (I plan to order the rest asap). The thing I appreciate most about this book is that my son doesn't even realize he's learning, and walks around talking about billions and trillions and googols in a far more sophisticated manner than I ever did as a 5 year old. Wells doesn't dumb things down...