11/28/10

Bigger and Smaller

Author: -Robert Froman
Title: -Bigger and Smaller
Illustrator: -Gioia Fiammenghi
Publisher: -Young Math Books
Year: -1971


Format: -Hardcover
Genre: -Concept Books
Reading Level: - Emergent Reader
Interest Level: - Early Elementary


Topics: - Sizes, differences, comparing


Summary: - This book compares sizes of things to figure out what is small or big. It shows one blotch of paint and asks is this big and says you can't tell because there is nothing to compare it to. They compare height, weight. Animals to people, people to people, people to items found outside, animals to animals, and also things in the sky.

Extension Activities: -
Have the children line up tallest to shortest. Then if they are old enough try and have them line up by ages of birthdays.