Tony Jacobs
Series
Reading rainbow volume 120
Publisher
Distributed by GPN Educational Media
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
A mathematical magician helps readers conceptualize a million, a billion, and a trillion. Other segments include: Really big numbers: LeVar explores ways of counting large numbers as he talks to people who share grouping and estimating techniques ; How crayons are made: a visit to the Crayola Crayon Factory shows how crayons are made and talk about the large number of crayons they handle in their jobs ; Football estimation: a visit to Giants Stadium...
Series
Reading rainbow volume 122
Publisher
Distributed by GPN Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This film explains the process of making bread--from growing the grain to baking it--in a song sung in English and in Spanish. LeVar talks about how the differences in culture impact bread as a common food. A Native American Hopi woman shows how she makes blue cornmeal bread. LeVar visits an East Indian restaurant where they bake bread in a Tandoori oven. Review books - Walter the baker / by Eric Carle ; Bread, bread, bread / by Ann Morris ; The tortilla...
