A review by beecheralyson
How Many Jelly Beans? by Andrea Menotti, Yancy Labat

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.