Next, Marvelosissimo takes readers to the Bank-a huge edifice complete with red carpets, carved slogans ("Save" and "Be Wise"), and frog attendants-where he explains the concepts of interest and bank loans. How many and how high a stack is $100 in pennies? Ten thousand of them, in a stack 50-feet high, teeter precariously near a phenomenal airport where the gates are reached via tightrope. "One dollar is worth as much as FOUR QUARTERS or TEN DIMES or TWENTY NICKELS or ONE HUNDRED PENNIES," Marvelosissimo explains, and we witness all the coins, crowding the page. But soon the questions arise-what does that much money look like, and how can it be spent, saved, or used to pay off a loan? For each job, they'll be paid an appropriate amount of money. Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician and his team of cheerful kids (and their multitude of animal friends) wield dusters, brooms, plungers, shovels, and cement as they take on feeding fish, dusting ducks, painting pots, transplanting trees, building bridges, and babysitting ogres. Schwartz and illustrator Steven Kellogg, who teamed up for the jubilant How Much Is a Million, have returned to the subject of money in If You Made a Million.
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