How Many Jelly Beans?

A recent New York Times book review called Menotti and Labat's work "ingenious," and it's easy to see why.This charming book teaches kids about BIG numbers (1-10 are so yesterday). The colorful adventures of jelly-bean lovers Aiden and Emma take young readers through pages of literally thousands and thousands of jelly beans, teaching them to conceptualize numbers as big as 10,000, 100,000, 500,000, and finally, 1 million. I only wish I'd had a copy as a kid--I struggled learning the big numbers; I could never remember how many zeros I needed!This book makes a wonderful present and I've already given it to all the kids in my life. It doesn't matter if they're already reading chapter books--this will delight readers of any age. When my cousin's 7-year-old son got to the surprise fold-out page at the end (which features a million jelly beans), he actually yelped, "Whoa--that's too many jelly beans!" We all roared with laughter.I can't recommend this enough and suggest you add it to your holiday lists. You won't be sorry!ALSO--This book just won the Bank Street Center for Children's Literature Cook Prize for the best picture book that teaches science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) principles. So that's just one more reason to share it with all the kids you know...we need to inspire more kids to pursue these fields!

I picked this book to read for my daughters 1st grade class. Everyone loved it and it is one of my daughters favorite books. So cool to see all the jelly beans on the pages.

Mathematically speaking, WONDERFUL BOOKS. With its kid appropriate language and the images associated with these ever increasing numbers were ACCURATELY PORTRAYED. The ending too has the better illustration for a million jellybeans and I am sure that if you couldn't every single one there would be one million jellybeans there. Which the rather large size of the book helps with. My kids loved it and couldn't stop giggling as I kept unfolding the million jellybeans.

My 1.5 and 2.5 year old nephews LOVE THIS BOOK!! They like to count the jellybeans and pretend to eat them. The end of the book has HUUUGE fold out page that represents ONE MILLION JELLY BEANS. They boys love it and say "I want to see one million!" and again, pretend to eat the jellybeans haha. The book itself is oversized (in a good way!) and their mother really appreciated how it helps the boys grasp big large HUGE numbers! It's cute, I recommend it for sure.

How Many Jellybeans is captivating with its jumbo size, brilliant colors and fabulous artwork. The narrative is fun showing typical sibling rivalry and the funny but relevant comments from the doggie make it interesting. The surprise is the last pages....really one million! Great math concept book for primary grades and teachers. Good book for circle time....1st graders would love it!

My son saw this book at a library a while back, and he asked for it for his 5th birthday. He is a kid who is fascinated by numbers, especially big ones. When my husband said the book is about jelly beans, my son said the book is about numbers 10 to one million.There is a page showing 1 jellybean, but otherwise this is a book that focus on large numbers. I like that it offers some variety with pages that divide the number of jellybeans by days of the week, compares them to the height of a building and breaks them down into smaller groups by flavor.I had forgotten how big this book is. It is approximately 11 1/4 by 14 1/4. It has a large fold-out section to represent the one million jellybeans. The foldout is my son's favorite part of the book, but it's also the reason I am giving it 4 stars rather than 5 since it is hard to keep it from ripping when a young child is helping. Just expect that the book won't stay perfect and keep some tape handy.

I love this book. I am a mathematician and this is an excellent book for kids and adults to grasp the concept of large numbers.Why does it seem like the difference between 10 and 100 is much bigger than the difference between 10,000 and 10,090? This book is a perfect illustration of this. It also shows that a large number like 1000 is on the order of something familiar - the days of the year (need to eat 2-3 jelly beans each day to have 1000 of them in one year). My 6 year old daughter loved it just as much as I did. We bought it for her teacher as a going away present.

Love it! The kids and their dog eventually get all the way up to wanting a million jelly beans which are all displayed on a very large foldout in the back of the book.I especially like the way the jelly beans are grouped throughout the book to show the different amounts being discussed. It's more important than ever to get a sense of large numbers since we talk about them every day (GB of computer memory, trillions of dollars of debt, etc) and this book can help with that.Do note that the large format means it's not good for car reading (I had wanted to do that).