Measuring up

Children (and many adults for that matter) love numbers and their significances (biggest, fastest, highest, etc)., so anything that explains or enhances those significances is to be welcomed. Children also like measuring things (including themselves) so that this series should prove very popular, certainly in the classroom or home and, by extension, in the school or public library. The texts in these bright and attractive volumes are divided into the customary two‐page sections on individual topics, all illustrated by clear diagrams, photographs and reproductions and commissioned illustrations, all in colour and all well supporting the texts.

The subjects range over...