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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...
2) Chicken Big
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English
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A giant chicken hatches from an enormous egg, but the other chickens cannot accept that he is one of them.
4) Actual size
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
©2004.
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English
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Discusses and gives examples of the size and weight of various animals and parts of animals.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"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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"From a bestselling illustrator, this utterly unique comic-style book for kids 4 to 8 explores super-small creatures with astounding abilities. Did you know that some of the smallest creatures on Earth have real-life superpowers? The minute oribatid mite can lift more than 1,000 times its own weight. A tiny type of salamander (called an axolotl) can regrow body parts. And the almost microscopic tardigrade? It can survive practically anywhere, even...
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Teeny Houdini volume 1
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"Tiny, impulsive Bessie Lee starts learning to become a magician to enter her school's talent show"--
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Chris and Martin Kratt--the Wild Kratts--explore the worlds of big elephants, big whales, and big wolf packs--and more! Fans of the Wild Kratts TV series will learn how animals use their size as an awesome creature power to survive in different environments. Children ages 4 to 6 year-old will love this information-packed Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader that also helps them learn to read.
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Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Some of the smallest animals have the mightiest powers. Big, brawny creatures may seem like the stars of the animal kingdom, but Earth's smallest inhabitants have impressive powers too. Ofter overlooked, these tiny critters help ecosystems thrive in numerous ways: they spread seeds, pollinate plants, make nutrient-rich soil -- or even become an essential meal for a predator. Gulp! Full of fascinating facts and information, Small but Mighty introduces...
12) Land of giants
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Welbeck Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Welcome to the land of giants! Journey across forests, plains, and seas, from the depths of time to the modern day, to discover the colossal beasts that have roamed the Earth. Feast your eyes of fearsome dinosaurs, mighty mammoths, and the biggest lizard that ever lived. Uncover a beaver the size of a bear, a giant bird that towered ten feet tall, and a terrifying pterosaur that gobbled baby dinosaurs for breakfast!"--Page 4 of cover.
13) Big
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2023.
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English
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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.
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Soaring Kite Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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An empowering celebration of bodies, promoting body positivity such as gratitude for our puffy cheeks that help us eat; strength in our round bellies that help store our food; pride in our natural hair; appreciation for the color of our skin; and more.
16) Macca the alpaca
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Macca the alpaca volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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When Macca runs into a llama who tries to bully him, he uses his brains and his kindness to teach the llama some important lessons.
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Being big can have its advantages, but it also comes with sizeable challenges. Take the world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon, whose huge appetite means it must take on prey ten times its weight, or the tallest of them all, the giraffe, who with such a long neck must control immense blood pressure. Nature's biggest beasts must go to extraordinary lengths to thrive. For them, size does matter.
19) I'm not small
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"A young boy can feel small in a world made up of big, big things, but when he takes a closer look, he discovers that he is big, too"--
20) The littlest yak
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Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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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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