Frank Carlson Library

Big and Little helps emergent readers understand and differentiate between these opposites while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, ensuring reading success by making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once. Big and Little includes tools for teachers as well as introductory...

A curious monkey who is tired of being small dreams of being big but discovers problems with that as well.

Explore the world of the VERY small.

Daniel Funk, who lives with three sisters, his mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, has always wanted a brother, and when he suddenly shrinks to the size of a toe, he discovers that he has a twin brother who is the same size.

Relates a tiny boy's adventure in a cow's mouth, a fish's belly, on the back of a mouse, and at a king's table. Includes reading activities.

Illustrations and simple text relate how Zip, the unlucky alien magician, zaps Bip so they can play some ball, but things do not go according to plan when Bip grows so big that he flies away like a giant balloon. Includes note to parents, introduction to the books vocabulary, and reading comprehension questions.

Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.

This book presents the story of three big, fast, thieving dinosaurs hungrily encountering a slower dino who uses his smaller teeth to eat fruit and leaves.

A little boy's father seems so large to him that he needs a ladder to cuddle him and birds nest in his father's hair.

Suggests the right words for describing sizes and amounts, from "short" and "tall" to "deep" and "shallow."