How Heavy?: Wacky Ways to Compare Weight

by Mark Weakland, Bill Bolton (Illustrator)

Overview

Compares various heavy objects to lighter objects in unique, illustrated ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781479519125
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	07/01/2013
Series:	Wacky Comparisons
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile:	AD790L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Bill has been an illustrator all his working life and his work has been published worldwide. He is equally happy with a ‘mouse’ or a paint brush in his hand. He also runs a small design agency and enjoys the challenge that this variety of work presents. He has a passion for the environment, living and working from an earth sheltered house with its own water and energy supply. At the weekends you might find Bill shearing the sheep, tending his carrots or mowing the roof!

Editorial Reviews

Forget numbers on a scale—here’s a far more interesting way to think about weight. . . .A rhyming text and bright cartoonlike illustrations highlight the impressiveness (and surprising nature) of these relative weights. . . .Kids will surely be tempted to explore measurable objects on their own.

Booklist

11/01/2013
K-Gr 3—This set is fun and silly and compares things familiar to the target audience. For example, in Long, a human tooth is contrasted with a shark's tooth-"3 pointy human teeth, it's the truth, are nearly the length of 1 great white shark tooth." The measurement used- "1 shark tooth = 2 1/2 in. (6 cm); 1 human tooth = 7/8 in. (22 millimeters)"-is provided for each example. Older readers can work the numbers to re-create the comparison. The metric computation doesn't always come out exactly the same, but that could result in a valuable discussion about conversions. The texts are minimal and the rhymes are mostly successful, but these titles are really about the numbers. The digital illustrations are appropriately humorous for the tone. This series contains some extreme comparisons (e.g., one blue whale weighs the same as 3.2 million mice), which some students may struggle with conceptualizing. Overall, these volumes would lead to informative lessons about measurements.

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