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1) Flat Stanley
Author
Series
Flat Stanley volume 1
Language
English
Description
Meet Stanley Lambchop. He's an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem. He's four feet tall, about a foot wide ... oh, and half an inch thick. At first being flat is fine. It's fun going in and out of rooms simply by sliding under the door. And it's exciting being mailed to your friends in California for a visit. But it's not always easy being different, and soon Stanley wishes he could be just like everybody else. Will he ever be normal again?...
2) Big & little
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Illustrates the concept of size by comparing different animals, from the smallest visible animals to the largest.
3) Tamano real
Author
Publisher
Editorial Juventud
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
Discusses and gives examples of the size and weight of various animals and parts of animals.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Imagine what it's like to be shrunk down and immersed in a magical world of fantastical creatures living incredible, action-packed lives. With a cast of miniature marvels all less than a foot in size, these superheroes may be small but they pack a punch way above their weight. Chipmunks, elephant shrews, marmosets, scorpion mice, even giant rhinoceros beetles all face drama on a different scale -- when you are this small rain drops fall like meteorites...
Author
Series
Scholastic readers volume level 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Introduces stories of incredible small animals, including a French bulldog, an alpaca, and a squirrel, who showed the world that size does not matter.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating lives and puzzling demise of some of the largest animals on earth. Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller--including gorilla-sized lemurs, 800-pound birds, crocodiles that weighed a ton or more--roamed the earth. These great beasts, or "megafauna," lived on every habitable continent and on many islands. With a handful of exceptions, all are now gone. What caused the disappearance of these...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping new account of the role of power in the evolution of all life on Earth. Power has many dimensions, from individual attributes such as strength and speed to the collective advantages of groups. The Evolution of Power takes readers on a breathtaking journey across history and the natural world, revealing how the concept of power unifies a vast range of phenomena in the evolution of life - and how natural selection has placed humanity and...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Take a close look at the everyday world in an introduction to size and space. The bright photographs are sure to delight young observers and spark their imaginations as they compare things large and larger small and smaller.
12) Actual size
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Discusses and gives examples of the size and weight of various animals and parts of animals.End pages has information about each animal.
13) Downsizing
Language
English
Formats
Description
When scientists find a way to shrink humans to five inches tall, Paul and his wife decide to get small and live large in a luxurious downsized community. With endless possibilities in the tiny world, Paul realizes we are meant for something bigger.
16) Muncle Trogg
Author
Series
Muncle Trogg volume 1
Publisher
La Galera
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Bullied and despised for being human-sized, a young giant demonstrates his bravery and cleverness in a series of adventures.
"El gigante más pequeño del mundo está a punto de vivir una gran aventura"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The scale of things means how one thing compares in size to another. In this book, appealing illustrations help kids understand scale by comparing many different kinds of animals by their length, weight, or height"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Rise
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism against injustice, this topic-driven board book offers clear, concrete language and imagery to introduce the concept of body positivity. This book serves to celebrate the uniqueness of your body and all bodies, and address the unfair rules and ideas that currently exist about bodies. It ends with motivational action points for making the world more fair for all! The backmatter offers...
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