This book shows Sebastian the pig and his animal friends on a trip as they comparing big and small objects and their large and small owners. The central issues addressed in this book are size, measuring and perspective. This book would be appropriate for early readers in grades 1-3 and could be used in an inclusive lesson that covers a math measuring lesson.

In the book Measuring with Sebastian Pig and Friends on a Road Trip Jill Anderson provides a simple and brief yet informative lesson on measurement. The book opens with Sebastian Pig and his friends planning for a road trip. As the group is preparing for the road trip, they decide to turn their adventures into a contest for who can find the biggest, heaviest, and longest items. The group of friends starts off by measuring their suitcases. They first decide to measure the height of the suitcase by standing next to their own suitcases and seeing how high on their body the suitcase reaches. The group of friends quickly discovers that this is not an ideal way to measure as they are all different heights. Sebastian gets out a yard stick and they measure the suitcases again using the yard stick. As the day goes on, the characters continue to use different measurement techniques to determine the weight, height, and length of various objects using standard and, at times, metric units of measure.
I enjoyed this book and think that it would be great to use in a first, second or third grade classroom to introduce measurement. The book demonstrates right away the importance of using a standard form of measurement. This also seems like a fun and simple way to begin talking with students about the metric system as the characters in the book discuss centimeters and explain that a centimeter is smaller than an inch. The content of the book was easy to understand, accurate, and a nice introduction to measurement.