TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,David J.
TI  - If... a mind-bending new way of looking at big ideas and numbers / 
SN  - 1894786343
PY  - 2014///
PB  - Kids Can Press, Toronto.
KW  - Natural history
KW  - fast
KW  - Natural resources
KW  - Population
KW  - World history
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - Picture books for children
KW  - Space and time
KW  - Space
N2  - Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way.   So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown as different types of balls). Accompanying each description is a kid-friendly drawing by illustrator Steve Adams that visually reinforces the concept
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