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Measuring Me

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UKLA Book Awards 2025 longlist

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Nicola Kent - Author

A playful, body-centred way into measuring, comparing and noticing scale. Familiar objects make abstract ideas tangible, while the chart and personalisation section invite children to connect the book with their own observations and measurements.

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Measurement· ExplainedComparison· ExplainedScale· Explained

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Beyond the Cover

measurementcomparisonscalerelativitybody diversitydisability representationidentity

Non-fictionPicture book

Themes in Context

Making measurement relatable

The book presents measuring through the human body and familiar objects such as food cans and washing, and includes ideas about body electricity and veins.Exploratory / explanatory

How the book presents it: Measurement is presented as something that can be explored through everyday comparisons, with abstract scale made more tangible.

Talk about: Which comparisons clarify measurement, and which mainly help the reader imagine scale?

Bodies represented in varied ways

The pictured cast includes children with a tracheostomy collar, head scarf, walker and glasses, as well as children without obvious visible disabilities.Provisional reading

Talk about: Are the children’s different appearances simply part of the group, or does the book comment on how bodies are measured and seen?

Why It May Be Worth Reading

It offers concrete starting points for talking about units, comparison, scale and the many ways bodies can be described. The inclusive cast, including children with visible disabilities, gives the illustrations a broad range of representation.

What Deserves Attention

Some bodily comparisons are imaginative or very large in scale, including electricity and veins. You may want to distinguish playful comparisons from measurements children could carry out directly, without presenting every claim as a precise experiment.

A Conversation Worth Having

Which comparisons feel like direct measurements, and which help you imagine size or scale? What would you choose to measure at home, and which unit or object would make the comparison clearest?

Reading Approach

Read it interactively rather than rushing through: pause at each comparison, predict what might be taller or heavier, then use safe everyday objects for simple comparisons. Treat the pull-out chart as an optional extension.

Confidence & Basis

Theme indicators describe how the book presents a topic; they are not a verdict on the whole book or your family's values. Confidence reflects how much book-specific material was checked. Only part of the book information was available, so some details remain unconfirmed.

What remains unconfirmed

Making measurement relatable: The available details do not show the full explanations, definitions or whether all comparisons are mathematically precise.
Bodies represented in varied ways: Some details of this treatment remain unclear.

Measuring Me - Kane Miller Books

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Checked: 19 September 2026.

Relevant to: Making measurement relatable

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