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Firsts
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Arlen Cohn |
A seven-year-old remembers some of the special moments in his life, from being spanked by the doctor the day he is born to his first day of school. Two wiggling eyeballs show through die cut holes on… |
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Bigger
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Daniel Kirk |
A little boy tells about how he began to grow even before he was born, and now as he continues to get bigger and bigger, so does his whole world. |
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Just Big Enough
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Mercer Mayer |
Little Critter is frustrated with his small size and he tries to find ways to make himself grow, until his grandfather shows him that being bigger is not always better. |
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The Trellis and the Seed
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Jan Karon |
A small seed surprises itself by becoming a flowering moonflower vine. |
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When I Am Eight
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Joan Lowery Nixon |
A child imagines how things will be when he is eight, like his big brother. |
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Emma Bean
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Jean Van Leeuwen |
Emma Bean, a homemade toy rabbit, joins Molly at birth and shares her trials and triumphs as she grows from infant to little girl. |
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A big boy now
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Eileen Spinelli |
When a young rabbit takes the training wheels off his bike, he learns something surprising about his dad. |
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Davy In the Middle
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Brigitte Weninger |
Although Davy Rabbit is too little to hike with his older brother and too big to play games with his younger siblings, he is just the right size to babysit his younger sister. |
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The sea serpent and me
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Dashka Slater |
One day a small sea serpent falls from the faucet into the tub as a child is about to take a bath, and as the days go by and the serpent grows, they both realize that he needs to go back to the sea w… |
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Tadpoles
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Betsy James |
Molly likes her tadpoles better than her baby brother Davey but admires Davey's growth over a period of several months and compares it to the development of her tadpoles. Includes instructions for ca… |
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Ruby in her own time
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Jonathan Emmett |
Ruby, the last of Mother Duck's and Father Duck's eggs to hatch, is slower to develop than her four siblings, until the day that she flies further and higher than any of them.
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Keeping up with Roo
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Sharlee Mullins Glenn |
Gracie has always had a special bond with her Aunt Roo, who is mentally disabled, but that relationship starts to change when Gracie begins school. |
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When I grow up .
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Gill McLean |
Fergus is only a little pup, but he wants to know what he should be when he grows up. |
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Purple pickle juice
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Erica Farber,Mercer Mayer |
Thistle Howl desperately wants to grow, but drinking purple pickle juice doesn't help and her aunt's magic makes Thistle think that maybe she's content just as she is. |
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Eaglet's world
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Evelyn White Minshull |
From the time he is still in the egg, a baby bald eagle is reluctant to take each new step in his growth, until the day comes when he flies and sees the beautiful world beyond his parents' nest. |
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Hue Boy
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Rita Phillips Mitchell |
Everyone in little Hue Boy's island village has suggestions on how to help him grow, but he learns to stand tall in a way all his own. |
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Don't let go!
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Anne Krief,Jeanne Willis,Tony Ross |
Megan is nervous about her dad letting go of her bike as she learns to ride, and her dad is nervous about how far into the world she will go once she does. |
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I'm big!
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Milton Schafer |
A boy relates all the things he can do now that he is big. |
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Pouch!
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David Ezra Stein |
A baby kangaroo takes his first tentative hops outside of his mama's pouch, meeting other creatures and growing bolder each time. |
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On the Way to Kindergarten
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Virginia L. Kroll |
A mother describes the increasing accomplishments of her five-year-old, from crying and sleeping, to riding a tricycle, then preparing for school. |
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