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