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Author Smith, David J. (David Julian), 1944- author

Title If ... : a mind-bending new way of looking at big ideas and numbers / written by David J. Smith ; illustrated by Steve Adams
Published Toronto, Ontario ; Tonawanda, N.Y. : Kids Can Press, [2014]
©2014

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 MELB CRC  500 Smi/Iam  AVAILABLE
Description 40 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents If... -- Our galaxy -- The planets -- History of Earth -- Life on Earth -- Events of the last 3000 years -- Inventions through time -- Inventions of the last 1000 years -- The continents -- Water -- Species of living things -- Money -- Energy -- Life expectancy -- Population -- Food -- Your life -- A note for parents and teachers
Summary Author 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)
Notes Lexile: 1250
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 40)
Audience Primary school age
Subject Natural resources -- Juvenile literature.
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature.
World history -- Juvenile literature.
Population -- Juvenile literature.
Nature stories.
Genre/Form Juvenile works.
Author Adams, Steve, 1967-, illustrator
ISBN 9781894786348 (bound)
Other Titles Mind-bending new way of looking at big ideas and numbers