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How Big Is It? : A Big Book All About Bigness

  • How Big Is It? : A Big Book All About Bigness
  • Attribution

    by Ben Hillman
  • Publication Details

    Book, Scholastic, 2007
  • Availability

    LOCATIONCALL #STATUS
      OVER CHILD LIT (LOWER)  153.75 H655b 2007         AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    This BIG title removes the confusion of the abstract by teaching size through eye-catching juxtaposition in “oh wow!” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
  • Author

  • Subject

  • Contents

    • Giant squid: Lengthy leggy leviathan
    • Olympus mons: Biggest volcano in the solar system
    • Reticulated python: Longest snake
    • Quetzalcoatlus: Biggest animal that ever flew
    • Great pyramid at Giza: Wonder of the ancient world
    • Goliath bird-eating spider: Biggest, creepiest arachnid
    • Tsunami: Highest wave
    • Polar bear: Biggest living carnivore
    • Dragonfly of the carboniferous: Biggest flying insect
    • Ice age glacier: Gigantic ice sheet
    • Airship: Biggest flying machine
    • Dinosaur-killing asteriod: Giant rock from outer space
    • Egg of the elephant bird: Largest egg in history
    • Redwood: Tallest living thing
    • Akula (shark) submarine: Biggest diving machine
    • Giraffe: Tallest living animal
    • Arecibo radio telescope: Biggest dish
    • Diamond: Too big for your finger
    • Valles Marineris: Biggest crack in the solar system
    • Flower: Biggest, weirdest flower
    • Eta Carinae: Enormous star
    • Googol: Extremely gigantic humongous insanely large number
  • ISBN

    • 0439918081
    • 9780439918084
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