Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician, who made "How Much Is a Million?" and "If You Made a Million" so kid-friendly, now takes readers way back in time to see how systems of measuring were developed. Full color.

Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician, who made "How Much Is a Million?" and "If You Made a Million" so kid-friendly, now takes readers way back in time to see how systems of measuring were developed. Full color.

There are millions of things to measure . . . and almost as many ways to measure them

Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician is back -- and ready to explore the invention of length, weight, and volume measurements. After that, with another wave of his wand, the wizard introduces the world of metrics and makes it easy to understand the basic pattern of meters, liters, and grams. With Steven Kellogg's playful and delightfully detailed illustrations, measuring has never been such a blast