Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement
By Jenny Lacika
Illustrated by Anna Bron
Published by MIT Kids Press
Release Date: Fall 2025
Karen Lotz and Hilary Van Dusen at Candlewick/MIT Kids Press have acquired world rights to MIT alumna Jenny Lacika’s Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement, a nonfiction picture book chronicling a student prank that still encourages creativity in science and engineering students today. Anna Bron will illustrate; publication is slated for fall 2025. Miranda Paul at Erin Murphy Literary Agency represented the author, and the artist represented herself.