Fresh Takes: Canadian Publishing 2014

If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers

David J. Smith

Sep 19, 2014

Kids Can is expecting David J. Smith’s new picture book, If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers, which is all about scale and size, to be a “category killer,” says Lisa Lyons Johnston. It offers readers images for grasping big issues, such as global wealth distribution, explaining that if all the world’s money were represented by 100 coins, the richest 1% would have 40 coins, while the poorest 50%, half of the world’s population, would share just one coin. “There’s really nothing else like this out there. Pretty well every spread is a lesson plan,” says Lyons Johnston. More . . . 

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