How Big Is a Foot? (Hardcover)

from Strims01

How Big Is a Foot?, written and illustrated by Rolf Myller is a fun story to engage children in the basic science processing skills. In this book there is a King who has to figure out what to give the Queen for her birthday, which is a hard task since she has everything. He decided to invent a be...

from kfrost32

This is a realistic fiction book about a king who makes a bed for his queens birthday present. It is before the times of measurment, so he uses his foot as a measurment but then the people making the bed are off because their feet are different sizes. This is a very cute book about how the measur...

from Strims01

How Big Is a Foot?, written and illustrated by Rolf Myller is a fun story to engage children in the basic science processing skills. In this book there is a King who has to figure out what to give the Queen for her birthday, which is a hard task since she has everything. He decided to invent a be...

from katie.harrel

Genre: realistic fiction or fantasy This is a good example of realistic fiction because it is about how they determined how to measure things before rulers and yard sticks. I am sure that there was a struggle about finding a measurement tool for everyone to use. It could also be fantasy because o...

from princessofthesea

Subject Area: Mathematics Genre: Folktale Critique/Summary: This story is told in the style of a folktale. There is a "moral" to the story, although it is not regarding an ethical issue, but a practical one. The story cleverly shows the need for a standard system of measurement. The tale centers ...