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"How Big is a Million?" is about a little penguin named Pipkin who decides one morning that he will spend his day trying to find a million of something. As he discovers on his adventure this is harder than he thinks until the end of the day when he gets home and his mommy helps him. The books pictures are adorable and the story ends with a giant fold out poster to surprise your children with.

When we read the story I asked my son based on the cover picture what he thought Pipkin would find that would equal a million. Then I asked him to think of something he could look at that would have a million of the same object. We all enjoyed this books together, because there were so many Kindergarten site words and easy to sound out words that my son was able to read some of it to his little sister. This story also addresses the numbers 10, 100, and 1000. We wrote out 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000, and 1,000,000 on paper and talked about how adding a zero changes the number a great deal (we had watched a Curious George cartoon with that idea in it so we discussed that also). I think their favorite part was opening the poster at the end of the story to see how big a million really was. We also took time to draw our version of our favorite scene in the story.