This book is about a jar and all the stuff inside it. It is a multiplication book where there in the jar there is a ocean, and in the ocean there is a island, and inside the island there is 2 countries, then three mountains and so on. This helps with multiplication because they can follow along to see how many things are in the jar. Mitsumasa, the author, creates many books with different subjects. although I did enjoy this book and would have it in my class library, i do think it would be difficult for some students to get and i would not use it for a read outload. ( )

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Sort of a surreal picture book in which inside a vase is an island, and on the island are many things, including ultimately the vase .... [return][return]A nice concept, but it didn't do as much for me as I'd hoped. ( )

35 months - I wanted to check this one out and see if it was worth borrowing in a couple years for understanding multiplication. Not bad. The illustrations give visual understanding to a concept that can often seem too abstract to kids. ( )

Anno presents a jar with the ocean in it. In the ocean we find an island. Everything on the island is in multiples. We then see that at the end that there are 3,628,800 jars in the original jar. The author represents the multiples on the remaining pages of the book. He shows the reader that 180 more pages filled with dots would be needed to represent the final number of jars. The author emphasizes the patterns evident in this book with the concept of factorials.

This book could be used as an introduction to the concepts of multiples. One could read this book aloud with a class to activate prior knowledge or build knowledge on the concept. One could also use this book for factorials and representation as well.

Informational Nonfiction
Reading Level: 4.2