This story is about Emma and Aiden. They like their jelly beans. When Emma is asked how many she'd prefer she opts for a standard "Ten!" Not to be outdone, her brother Aiden asks for "Twenty!" So naturally Emma asks for twenty-five, and Aiden sees her twenty-five and raises the number to fifty. At a certain point, of course, Emma points out to her brother that when it comes to numbers like five hundred jelly beans (and you can see all five hundred on the table in front of them) there's no way a person could eat that many. Aiden points out that in a year he could eat as many as a thousand. Up and up and up the numbers go, with more and more jelly beans filling the pages until at long last you reach the thrilling conclusion. Turn the page and you find some folded pages. On one side the kids are suggesting a MILLION jelly beans. Well, as it just so happens, that's how many fill these folded pages. And finally, at long last, Aiden concedes that maybe a million, just maybe, might be too much.

This product uses a really innovative and child friendly way to introduce place value and how numbers grow when multiplied . The illustrations are fantastic and by using pictures to illustrate even the larger numbers, especially the million, children get a real idea of how big they are. It also gives them lots of opportunities to ask questions and develop their own ideas