What’s big? What’s small? Sometimes it depends on what we’re comparing. Fortunately, an assortment of books introduces the concept of scale to young readers. While text explanations can be helpful, visuals carry the learning load, from charts to graphical representations to lifesize illustrations. And while most of the books focus on animals (because who isn’t impressed by the enormity of a blue whale or curious about a sloth’s speed?), other titles spotlight the scale of the human body and the vastness of the universe. Still more let children consider scale through unusual creatures and even their own scale in the world.
Actual Size. By Steve Jenkins. Illus. by the author. 2004. 32p. Clarion (9780618375943). Gr. 1–3. 591.4.
Now a modern nonfiction classic, this oversize picture book pairs Jenkins’ signature cut-paper…
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