![]() ![]() A goldfish bowl for a billion goldfish would be as big as a stadium. Waving his magic wand, he stacks a billion kids into a human tower reaching past the moon. Now how much is a billion? No question is too difficult for Marvelosissimo. Readers will be awestruck as a million begins to make sense. ![]() He conjures 100,000 stars spanning seven pages of the book: now just take this seven-page journey ten times. He waves his wand to create a goldfish bowl for a million goldfish - and large enough for a whale. Marvelosissimo magically stands a million children on each other’s shoulders. He engages the help of Marvelosissimo the Magician. “If one million kids climbed onto one another’s shoulders, they would be taller than the tallest buildings, higher than the highest mountains, and farther up than airplanes can fly.”Īuthor Schwartz, along with illustrator Steven Kellogg, bends over backward to help young readers conceptualize - and more importantly visualize - how much a million actually is. ![]()
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