The large, up close photographs are a wonderful way to  illustrate the measuring concepts presented in this primary text.  Will Sue use her foot or her nose to measure how tall her newly sprouted flower is growing?  It is obvious by the photo of the foot and the nose, next to the sprout, that one is too big and one too small.  Enlarged and bold photos of rulers, yardsticks, and tape measures show the standard tools that are used for measuring.  When a ruler is used to measure the height of Sue’s plant, the text says…”The ruler shows that her plant is 5.5 inches (14 centimeters) tall.”  First of all, throwing in a decimal into a primary, introductory book just doesn’t make sense…and second, it is obvious from the exquisite close up photo that the plant does not even measure as tall as 5.5 inches.  Also, why include the centimeters, when you can not see 14 centimeters on the ruler, due to the fact that you measure inches and centimeters starting from opposite ends of the ruler.   This was quite confusing.  A few other photos are equally confusing, with respect to the text.  Other pages have the visual and concepts work quite well together.  The kids will love the “Cool Measuring Facts” in the back, listing things like tallest dog, longest hair, tallest man, etc. (Photos of each of these would have been very “cool”.)