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1) Actual size
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Discusses and gives examples of the size and weight of various animals and parts of animals.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Once upon a time ...a king and queen discover, among their flowers, the teensiest, tiniest princess. Such a charming, sweet little thing! They are instantly taken with her - she becomes the daughter they never had, the child they had always dreamed of. The Queen immediately sets about finding her a perfect-sized bed and only a tiny ring box will do. But, in no time at all, the princess grows too big for her miniature bed. In fact, with each passing...
4) Downsizing
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Description
When scientists find a way to shrink humans to five inches tall, Paul Safrane and his wife Audrey decide to ditch their stressed out lives in order to get small and live large in a luxurious downsized community. Filled with life-changing adventures and endless possibilities, Leisureland offers more than riches, as Paul discovers a whole new world and realizes that we are meant for something bigger.
6) Codzilla
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Bertie, a giant codfish, is tired of being bullied about his size, but when the other fish at school start calling him Codzilla, it really hurts. Being big isn't easy, but when a shark comes around with his mouth wide open, Bertie becomes everyone's hero..."--
Author
Publisher
Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
The Teeny Tiny Farmer says good bye to her cow, sheep, and pig and heads to market in her teeny tiny truck. All is well until her teeny tiny truck gets a tiny bit...STUCK! What will she do? Can she get unstuck all on her own, or does she need a little bit of help from a friend or two?
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Series
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Gertie is the littlest yak, feeling stuck in her smallness--she wants to grow UP and have bigness and tallness. But when it turns out that there are some things that only Gertie can do, might she come to see that she's perfect, just the way she is? A rollicking, rhyming, heartwarming and reassuring story from debut author, Lu Fraser and much-loved illustrator, Kate Hindley.
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"Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club. She's at peace with her plus-size body--at least, most of the time--and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her...
Author
Series
Sixty-eight rooms adventures volume 4
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Description
In the Art Institute of Chicago's miniature Thorne Rooms, the Thorne Rooms key and a mysterious set of rings lead Ruthie and Jack to new historical eras and a woman who went missing as a young girl.
12) I am just right
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A boy who is too big for his crib, his tricycle, and being picked up by his grandfather is just the right size for his bed, bicycle, and Grandpa's hugs.
13) Pooka & Bunni
Author
Publisher
Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Pooka always wants to do whatever her big sister, Bunni, is doing but when she knocks down Bunni's pillow castle, she needs imagination, creativity, and perseverance to set things right.
14) Can I come too?
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A mouse leads a group of animals on a search for the biggest creature in the world.
15) Not little
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Dot proves she is not little by standing up to a school bully.
17) Chicken Big
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
A giant chicken hatches from an enormous egg, but the other chickens cannot accept that he is one of them.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
In a Korean village where being strong and loud is valued, tiny Soe-in is ridiculed but when the sun disappears, Soe-in dares to find the spirit tiger and set things right. Includes note about the position of tigers in Korean culture.
Author
Series
AV2 fiction readalong volume 185
Description
Geri, the shortest giraffe who ever lived, is afraid he will ruin a group photograph so the other giraffes try everything they can think of to bring him up to their height until a caterpillar offers a different perspective.
20) Big
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.