Frank Carlson Library

A stick figure boy grows up, eventually leaving home and starting a stick family of his own.

"A journey through the various cycles of growing up, from a garden that began as a single seed to a child remembering that he was once small"--

Bear is growing up and wants to prepare for his birthday party without help, but soon learns that some things are more fun to do with friends.

As a boy grows up, he returns to the seashore to ask the sea for answers to difficult questions.

This picture book relays the events of two hundred years from the unique perspective of a magnificent oak tree, showing how much the world can transform from a single vantage point. From 1775 to the present day, this framing device lets readers watch as human and animal populations shift and the landscape transitions from country to city. Methods of transportation, communication and energy use progress rapidly while other things hardly seem to change...

As a little boy grows into a bigger boy, he first must have the difficult conversation Black families have with their sons, warning them about the challenges they face due to racism.

A little boy worries throughout the summer that he's not getting bigger, but at the end of the season he tries on his winter clothes and realizes that he has grown.

A little girl learns to walk, climb, and study the earth from her friends, most of whom are animals.

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 where he belongs.