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cstoeger's review against another edition
Illustrates various large numbers in jelly beans. The last page shows how many 1 million jelly beans look like. Would be a good book for Easter.
brooke_review's review
4.0
The giant-sized counting book, How Many Jelly Beans?, begins with Emma and Aiden being asked how many jelly beans they would like to have. Both children start with considerably small numbers, but gradually work their way up to 1 million jelly beans. Each set of jelly beans is accompanied with an illustration of the number of jelly beans described in the set. The children, along with their dog, play with grandiose ideas such as eating 5,000 jelly beans in one year and determining how many jelly beans of each flavor they would prefer if given 10,000 jelly beans. The book ends grandly with 1 million jelly beans illustrated on a single page.
The book combines a simple, easy-to-read story with math skills that gradually increase in difficulty. Counting, computation, time, and measurement skills are exercised in this book, such as counting by 25’s and dividing the number of jelly beans by the number of days in the year. Excitement grows through the book as the children become more imaginative in their dreams of jelly beans, and this enthusiasm carries over to the reader – children of all ages will be tempted to count the number of jelly beans illustrated throughout the book as the illustrations display the jelly beans so convincingly, yet unconvincingly. It is hard to believe that 10,000 jelly bean illustrations, or especially a million at that, are able to fit on a single page. This book is recommended as a supplemental purchase to all libraries, as it is well-done, but there may not be need in all libraries for additional counting concept books.
The book combines a simple, easy-to-read story with math skills that gradually increase in difficulty. Counting, computation, time, and measurement skills are exercised in this book, such as counting by 25’s and dividing the number of jelly beans by the number of days in the year. Excitement grows through the book as the children become more imaginative in their dreams of jelly beans, and this enthusiasm carries over to the reader – children of all ages will be tempted to count the number of jelly beans illustrated throughout the book as the illustrations display the jelly beans so convincingly, yet unconvincingly. It is hard to believe that 10,000 jelly bean illustrations, or especially a million at that, are able to fit on a single page. This book is recommended as a supplemental purchase to all libraries, as it is well-done, but there may not be need in all libraries for additional counting concept books.
molly_dettmann's review
4.0
Fun book that teaches counting concepts using the fun of jelly beans! It is not possible to have too many jelly beans.
beecheralyson's review
5.0
Any book on numbers that gets me to laugh out loud while reading it deserves a 5 star. Brother and sister team (Aidan and Emma) are in a typical race to have the most - in this case - jellybeans. Emma starts with 10 and then Aidan has to go with 20. They debate throughout the story if 100 or 500 or 1000 jelly beans are too many to eat (even in a year). While the numbers are increasing the size of the jelly beans are decreasing to allow for the number of jelly beans to be drawn on the page. It is a great way for children to catch the concept of these numbers. Even Aidan's dog Murphy gets into the act. I loved some of his "comments". The fun part - is seeing how the illustrator accommodates 1,000,000 jelly beans on a page. The oversized nature of this book and the end page spread will pose some challenges to a school library. However, this one is well worth the inconvenience.
frankisib's review
5.0
A great book for math thinking. Love the connection to How Much is a Million along with lots of problem solving opportunities. All ages, I think.
maidmarianlib's review
3.0
Interesting concept book that illustrates big numbers, but the size is unwieldy and the big pull out page at the end is very awkward for classrooms, library, and read aloud.