How Many Jelly Beans?

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 honestly didn't think my kids would care much for this book. I only bought it to go with our home school "letter J" day and a jelly bean math activity. Both my 7 and 4-year-old think the book is absolutely fascinating.

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 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.

Our son loves this book! The last page surprise is the best :)

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).

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.

Omg my my son is autistic and LOVES numbers. He is 3 years old and this is one of his favorite books!!

My kids LOOOOVE this book. My son took it out of the library multiple times at his old school.. and his new school doesn’t have it, so I bought it to add to our collection. We’ve read it half a dozen times at least in the past week. He’s so happy to be reunited with the book!

Large children’s book. A fabulous and engaging resource for numeracy development in early childhood. Children just love reading it and engaging in numeracy as they do.

My students absolutely loved the book

Fantastic book - really helps children grasp the concept of big numbers - which they are so excited by. My son (age 5) wants to read this every night and took it to school - the teacher shared it with the whole class. Now my two kids 'act it out' like a play. Just beware that the 'tone' is American. My kids didn't know what a jelly bean was - we had to buy some!

My y1 class loved thinking about these huge numbers! They love pull out the poster and reading it themselves too.