Fishman, Seth. A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars: Can You Imagine So Many… Of Anything? Illustrated by Isabel Greenberg. Greenwillow Books, 2017. $17.99. ISBN 9780062455789. Unpaged. Ages 6-12. P8 Q8.
The book goes on an adventure making connections with the universe and the world with big numbers. Readers are exposed to huge numbers and possible examples of that amount. The numbers and the estimations of stars, ants, and raindrops are explained in the “Author’s Note” at the end of the book. The book provides the way to read the large numbers by having them written in words. End pages show people in beds reading amongst stars.
Verdict: It is a great exposure to the estimation and realism of the large amounts. This is a fun addition to a library and great read aloud for discussion of big numbers.
November 2017 review by Deborah Gwynn.
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