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If..: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers
By SMITH, David J.
- ISBN
- 9781894786348
- Publisher
- Kids Can
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2014 | Preschool to Grade 4
Gr 2–5—Following in the footsteps of his If America Were a Village (2009) and If the World Were a Village (2011, both Kids Can), Smith again scales down large concepts and numbers for young readers with a focus on worldly concepts. Topics ranging from our galaxy, solar system, world history, inventions, world population, and energy and food production are related to familiar everyday objects, so children can easily grasp the relationship between these big ideas. For instance: if all of Earth's water was represented by 100 drinking glasses, 97 glasses would be fille...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2014
Smith "scales down" related, unfathomably large distances, time frames, or data (the history of Earth, all of the world's energy, life ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
