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When mindy saved hanukkah

Kimmel, Eric A.

Mindy, a mouse-sized girl, bravely faces a cat in the synagogue to retrieve a candle for her tiny family's Hanukkah menorah. Her mission allows her family to celebrate their special holiday together.

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animals, bravery, cat, celebration, family, fear, hanukkah, height, holidays, Jewish, multicultural, sizes

A farmer plants a potato eye to grow a potato. It grows so enormous that the whole family has to work together to pull the potato from the ground. They then cook the potato for the whole town to eat it.

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careers, challenges, conflict resolution, cooperation, critical thinking, decision making, determination, family, farm, food, garden, neighbors, nutrition, plants, problem solving, sequence, sizes, teamwork, verbal communication

The very hungry caterpillar

Carle, Eric

A caterpillar hatches from it's egg and is very hungry. It eats a variety of food for seven days. After it is full, the caterpillar builds a cocoon and becomes a butterfly.

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butterfly, caterpillar, change, cocoon, critical thinking, Days of The Week, decision making, five senses, food, growing up, hunger, insects, moon, shelter, sizes, sun, taste

I know how we fight germs

Rowan, Kate

How do we get sick?Join Sam and his mom as they talk about germs and their bodies. Help them figure out how bodies fight off enemy germs.

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animals, body parts, caring, cat, chicken pox, cleanliness, clothing, cold, critical thinking, diseases, elephant, family, garden, health, hygiene, illness, imagination, numbers, parents, plants, pretend, rescue, school, science, sizes, teaching, verbal communication

Herbert hated being small

Kuskin, Karla

Herbert hates being small, and Philomel hates being tall. They meet and see that they are the same height. They then understand that size is based on perspectives such as who you are standing next to.

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body image, conflict resolution, critical thinking, frustration, insecurity, loneliness, perspective, running away, self esteem, sizes, teasing, verbal communication, wish

Belinda's bouquet

Newman, Leslea

A chubby little girl has difficulty understanding why all people have different shapes and sizes. Her friend's mom tells a story that helps Belinda understand how people are different. Belinda ends up feeling good about herself.

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body image, confidence, critical thinking, friendship, overweight, respect, self esteem, sizes

You were born on your very first birthday

Girard, Linda Walvoord

The development of a growing baby is shown sleeping and moving. Body parts and special sounds develop from the inside environment of the mother's tummy until a new day when the baby is born. A nurse and doctors are there with the baby's parents in the hospital when the baby is born.

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balloon, bedtime, birth, birthday, body parts, doctor, excitement, family, hospital, love, new baby, nurse, onomatopoeia, parents, pregnancy, rainbow, relationship, reproduction, sizes, sleep

The little tiny rooster

Lipkind, William//Mordvinoff, Nicolas

A little tiny rooster is disliked by the other chickens. One night a meeting is held to find a night watch man. The little rooster volunteers but is told he's too small. He does it anyway and saves the day.

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assertiveness, birds, chicken, determination, farm, goal setting, heroism, peer resistance, performance, rescue, self esteem, sizes, stress management, uniqueness, verbal communication

Little mouse and the big cupcake

Taylor, Thomas

Little Mouse finds a big cupcake, but it is so big he can't carry it home. Other animals come by and ask to try the cupcake, but they can't help him carry it. After all the animals have some of the cupcake Little Mouse is sad. He cheers up when he realizes there's a positive side to the smaller cupcake.

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animals, birds, chipmunk, conflict resolution, decision making, excitement, feelings, food, frog, kindness, mole, mouse, opossum, problem solving, sizes

School bus

Crews, Donald

School buses line up to take children to school then bring them home again. How many school buses are there on the last page?

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art, five senses, perspective, school, shapes, sizes, transportation

A string of beads

Reid, Margarette

A young girl and her grandma spend time together making necklaces from beads. Beads can come in all different shapes, sizes, textures, and materials. They were used by many cultures throughout time. When she puts her necklaces together she learns about each bead.

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appearance, appreciation, archeology, art, author's note, beauty, celebration, colors, creativity, diversity, egyptian, family, fossil, grandparents, history, multicultural, native american, plants, shapes, sizes, spiritual, storytelling, symbols

A pig is big

Florian, Douglas

What is bigger than a pig?A variety of comparisons are expressed through poetic lyrics and illustrations, all of which are bigger than a pig.

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animals, bus, car, community, comparisons, cow, lyrics, pig, planet, poetry, sizes, stars, transportation, truck

Willy and hugh

Browne, Anthony

Willy the monkey is alone. One day, Willy becomes friends with Hugh. They do things together like go to the zoo.

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animals, conflict resolution, feelings, friendship, loneliness, monkey, sadness, sizes

Even steven

Lipkind, William//Mordvinoff, Nicolas

A boy named Hobie, chooses Steven, a runt horse, as his pet. Everyone puts Steven down until he saves the day for the ranchhands and the owner.

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animals, assertiveness, bias, cowboys, encouragement, friendship, horse, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, ranch, rescue, self esteem, sizes, stress management, uniqueness, verbal communication

Circle dogs

Henkes, Kevin

Two circle dogs live in a big, square house with Mama, Papa, Big Sister, and Baby. They like to run, dig, jump, and eat circle snacks. Most of all they like to sleep.

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animals, dog, dreams, family, morning, night, obedience, play, routine, shapes, sizes, sleep, sounds

Little elephant and big mouse

Cantieni, Benita

Little Elephant explains to Big Mouse how things are different in size and how things are seen differently because of their size.

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animals, companion, differences, elephant, friendship, mouse, perspective, sizes

Amos & boris

Steig, William

Amos is a mouse who gets stranded in the middle of the ocean. Boris the whale, comes to his rescue and they become the best of friends. Each helps the other to survive.

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animals, bodies of water, death, differences, elephant, friendship, helping, mouse, ocean, similarities, sizes, survival, whale

The everything book

Fleming, Denise

An educational book with a little bit of everything from nursery rhymes to counting plus colors, fruits, seasons, alphabet, and animals.

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alphabet, animals, autumn, birds, bluejay, body parts, cardinal, cat, chicken, colors, counting, cow, dog, feelings, firefly, fish, food, fruit, guinea pig, insects, morning, night, nutrition, pets, poetry, rabbit, robin, seasons, sequence, shapes, sizes, sparrow, spring, summer, toys, train, transportation, winter

The teeny tiny teacher

Calmenson, Stephanie

The teeny tiny teacher and her teeny tiny students have a school day full of teeny tiny things. However, they are frightened by a voice coming from the closet asking for the bone the teacher found on their teeny tiny walk. Find out who the voice belongs to.

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alliteration, beverage, bones, fear, feelings, folktale, food, ghosts, learning, mystery, park, routine, school, science, sizes, teaching, verbal communication, walking

Hue boy

Mitchell, Rita Phillips

Hue Boy is very concerned about his height. Everyone thinks that he is too short. He and his mother try every possible remedy, but nothing works. Finally, Hue Boy's father returns, and Hue Boy loses his feelings of smallness through his pride of being with his father.

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african american, appearance, depression, differences, family, insecurity, multicultural, parents, pride, self confidence, self esteem, sizes, stress management, verbal communication

Big friend, little friend

Greenfield, Eloise

Three African American children show their friendship for one another in different ways as each child has different interests according to their age (A Board Book)

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activities, african american, body image, caring, differences, friendship, health, kindness, multicultural, play, sizes

The very little girl

Krasilovsky, Phyllis

A little girl overcomes obstacles of being small when she begins to grow up and get bigger. Size comparisons are made to other objects and people in her life.

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accomplishment, comparisons, conflict resolution, differences, encouragement, frustration, growing up, sizes

The very little boy

Krasilovsky, Phyllis

A little boy overcomes obstacles of being small when he begins to grow up and get bigger. Comparisons are made to other objects and people in his life.

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accomplishment, comparisons, conflict resolution, differences, encouragement, frustration, growing up, sizes

More m & m's math

McGrath, Barbara

M & M candy characters guide you through the wonderful world of math as you learn the concepts of graphing, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and ordinal numbers. The best part is that you get to eat the materials you're working with. Remember not to eat too many!

The big pets

Smith, Lane

There is a mysterious world where the children are small and the pets are big. These children, along with their pets, gather to play at night and are therefore called nightchildren.

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animals, dreams, imagination, night, opposites, pets, play, recreation, sizes

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Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

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When mindy saved hanukkah

The enormous potato

The very hungry caterpillar

I know how we fight germs

Herbert hated being small

Belinda's bouquet

You were born on your very first birthday

The little tiny rooster

Little mouse and the big cupcake

School bus

A string of beads

A pig is big

Willy and hugh

Even steven

Circle dogs

Little elephant and big mouse

Amos & boris

The everything book

The teeny tiny teacher

Hue boy

Big friend, little friend

The very little girl

The very little boy

More m & m's math

The big pets