Can You Count to a Googol? In this fun book of numbers, Robert E. Wells explores the wonderful world of zeros and tells how the googol came to be named. It begins with number 1 and adds zeros one page at a time. “One is the number of bananas you could balance on your nose if you were a good banana balancer.” The silly drawings do a great job of illustrating the various numbers (Picture one hundred penguins each holding ten scoops of ice cream in a cone), multiplying by ten all the way up to a trillion. After this, it jumps to a quadrillion, a quintillion, an octillion, and then a googol. The book makes a point of showing the numbers as numerals and written numbers with cartoons that can illustrate the growing numbers. The imaginations make this book great for read-alouds and for encouraging kids to enjoy math. The very last page even tells of the googol's history, and kids will love knowing that a 9-year-old named it!
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