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Explores ways to compare size using crayons and photographs to illustrate concepts.

Sure that he is the smallest creature on earth, a young elephant leaves home and journeys over woodlands, rivers, and plains searching for someone even smaller than he is.

Edward wants to be bigger than Daddy, so for one afternoon they pretend to exchange places.

The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school.

Uses colored photographs and simple statements to describe the meat-eating giganotosaurus as well as other dinosaurs and their physical characteristics, behaviors, and their plant and animal diets. Cannot fully explain why all of these creatures became extinct.

"In this book, early fluent readers will learn all about the world's smallest fish, their characteristics and behaviors, and how they survive in the wild. Vivid, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn about tiny fish and their effect on the world around them. A Take a Look! infographic shows how a dwarf lanternshark uses its photophores to lure in prey, fact boxes give size statistics, sidebars present interesting,...

"In this book, early fluent readers will learn all about the world's smallest amphibians, their characteristics and behaviors, and how they survive in the wild. Vivid, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn about tiny amphibians and their effect on the world around them. A Take a Look! infographic provides information on a frog's life cycle, sidebars present interesting, supplementary information, fact boxes...

"Two fuzzy creatures can't agree on who is small and who is big, until a couple of surprise guests show up, settling it once and for all!"--Jacket flap.

A child compares the size of various items and discovers that she is the tallest of all. Includes suggested learning activities.