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With his on-the-mark instinct for making math fun and easy, the best-selling author of How Much Is a Million returns with another explosively energetic math book!

If your dog were the size of a dinosaur, his dinner would fill your bedroom! If the moon were the size of a marble, earth would fit in your hands! If your submarine sandwich was as big as its name, the pickle would be as big as a life raft!
Mighty math-man David Schwartz's amazing examples of relative size, and James Warhola's hilarious, literal depictions make these mind-bending math concepts crystal clear and tons of fun. Concise, easy-to-follow back matter ...

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Overview

With his on-the-mark instinct for making math fun and easy, the best-selling author of How Much Is a Million returns with another explosively energetic math book!

If your dog were the size of a dinosaur, his dinner would fill your bedroom! If the moon were the size of a marble, earth would fit in your hands! If your submarine sandwich was as big as its name, the pickle would be as big as a life raft!
Mighty math-man David Schwartz's amazing examples of relative size, and James Warhola's hilarious, literal depictions make these mind-bending math concepts crystal clear and tons of fun. Concise, easy-to-follow back matter provides equations that show just how readers can solve these fascinating, outrageous proportional problems!

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
In a zany yet thought-provoking follow-up to If You Hopped Like a Frog, the collaborators present colorful hypotheses intended to spark kids' curiosity about relative size: If Dogs Were Dinosaurs by David M. Schwartz, illus. by James Warhola. "If your dog were as big as a dinosaur... his dinner would fill up your living room." This and subsequent statements lend themselves to hyperbolic art, which Warhola delivers with gusto. Added together, graphics and text provide readers with ample opportunity to laugh and learn. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Children's Literature
This inventive tale presents "what if" situations to challenge one's imagination, asking readers to consider the relativity of sizes and proportions of objects that one sees every day. The appendix offers a detailed explanation of the "what if" scenarios, providing a mathematical perspective of the illustrations and text. For instance, the author gives detailed numbers and figures for what would happen if hair really were as thick as spaghetti. The author writes an interesting twist on a seemingly simple idea. Schwartz clearly researched this children's book thoroughly before writing it. This unique book combines the elements of both math and scientific reasoning. The illustrations are imperative for this story because they make these wacky situations become almost realistic and life sized. The illustrations make typical situations come alive with humor and irony, such as three children surfing a wave on a pickle! Accompanying this imaginative text, Warhola's illustrations help to explain situations while maintaining a sense of fun and playfulness. 2005, Scholastic Press, Ages 4 to 8.
—Meredith Reaves
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Children's Literature
A book of comparative size asks what it might be like if your dog were as big as a dinosaur, or Ralphie was as big as a redwood. Well, the dog's dinner would fill up your living room and Ralphie's sister could land a hook shot on top of the Washington Monument. Other "ifs" posed ask what would happen "if the moon were a marble" and "if germs were big as gerbils." Not all of the situations are larger. What if a cruise ship were the size of a kayak? The resulting picture suggests that speedboats could race across your cereal bowl. You do not want to look too closely at the logic of the pairs, though. Why is Ralphie not the one shooting baskets since the first page introduces him? Why do you need a handkerchief that could cover San Francisco if germs are big as gerbils? You would probably need a bigger wastebasket for all of those monster Kleenexes. Warhola's humorous watercolor and colored pencil illustrations are lighthearted and the line agile. Back matter examines the math of the comparisons: Ralphie is really three feet tall and a redwood would be about 240 feet, or eighty times as tall. So by taking those proportions and blowing up his sister to the comparative size, she would be able to hit a hook shot of about 550 feet, the height of the Washington Monument. Math buffs will have fun "blowing up" other situations and really sharp math buffs can search then for the commensurate item in the real world that their giant can interact with. It is a sophisticated idea, crowd-pleasingly realized and challenging but fun for third or fourth graders to try to duplicate.
School Library Journal
Gr 2-5-Schwartz, whose How Much Is a Million? (HarperCollins, 1985) explained REALLY big numbers to young readers, now tackles proportion and relative size. The concept is complicated and the book doesn't succeed in simplifying it, even with an appendix that explains the logic behind each example. The problems seem randomly selected and the explanations, while kid-friendly, are far from concrete: "If Ralphie were as tall as a redwood-his big sister could land a hook shot on top of the Washington Monument" or "If a chocolate bar covered the mall-each almond would be the size of a blimp." Warhola's pen-and-watercolor drawings humorously interpret each statement, but the book is only moderately effective. Children interested in the sizes of things are better served by the wonderful collages in Steve Jenkins's Actual Size (Houghton, 2004).-Kathleen Whalin, York Public Library, ME Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
For his newest exercise in math without tears-unless you count tears of laughter-Schwartz invites readers to imagine how much food a dog the size of a T. rex would eat, how big the Earth would be if the Moon were a marble, how long a tongue would be if taste buds were as big as rose buds and similar ramifications for germs the size of gerbils, hair as thick as spaghetti, kayaks the size of cruise ships, a submarine sandwich as big as a submarine and more. If his comparisons don't have readers rolling in the aisles, Warhola's literal visualizations-from a skateboarder zooming down a ramp-like tongue to a humongous mole (as in "molehill") towering over the Empire State Building, meatballs as big as bowling balls and a chocolate bar with blimp-sized almonds melting messily over a shopping mall-definitely will. And, to prove that it's not all just free-range imagining, Schwartz closes with actual numbers, step-by-step calculations, notes on iffy assumptions (for instance, a 14,000 pound dog would eat a lot, but not 350 times as much as a 40 pound one) and related problems to solve. Math didn't used to be this much fun-it's almost unfair. (Picture book/nonfiction. 7-9)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780439676120
  • Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
  • Publication date: 10/28/2005
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 32
  • Age range: 7 - 10 Years
  • Product dimensions: 8.80 (w) x 11.10 (h) x 0.11 (d)

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