Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement

Written by Jenny Lacika

Illustrated by Anna Bron

About the Creator(s)

Jenny Lacika is a graduate of MIT and author of the Mathical Award winner Again, Essie?, illustrated by Teresa Martínez. As a student, she crossed the bridge between Boston and Cambridge countless times. She measures about 0.96 smoots in height and now lives more than 2 million smoots away from the bridge, in New Mexico.

Anna Bron is the illustrator of The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice: How to Discover a Shape by Amy Alznauer, No Horses in the House! by Mireille Messier, and the Salma series by Danny Ramadan. She is also an animation director who has worked on Emmy- and Oscar-nominated projects, including short films and commercials. Anna Bron lives in Canada.