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A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons. Dazzlingly colorful collage illustrations and a simple but dramatic text tell the fascinating story of the life cycle of a flower in terms of the adventures of a tiny seed. Carried aloft by the autumn wind, the tiny seed, along with other bigger seeds, travels far over the world. the journey is perilous: one of the bigger seeds is burned by the sun another falls into the ocean...
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Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
49 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Walt is not the tallest or the curliest or the pointiest or even the crunchiest. A confounded blade of grass searches for his 'est' in this hilarious story about growing up"--
5) Just because
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From worrying when excited to forgiving while still hurting, children experience everyday paradoxes as they embrace their full potential.
6) Silverwing
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English
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When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys.
7) Hokey Pokey
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English
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Ever since they were Snotsippers, Jack and the girl have fought, until one day she steals his bike and as he and the Amigos try to recover it, Jack realizes that he is growing up and must eventually leave the "goodlands and badlands of Hokey Pokey.".
12) Little Boo
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English
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A pumpkin seed tries unsuccessfully to be scary until it grows into a pumpkin and Halloween arrives.
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English
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A reminder of the most important things in life. A book of hope for uncertain times. Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most poignant life lessons. Charlie's first book includes his most-loved illustrations and new ones too. The conversations of the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared thousands of times online, recreated in school art classes, hung on hospital walls and turned into...
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Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his favorite dandelion looks surprisingly small, Pomelo the garden elephant discovers that he is growing and then wonders about the mysterious process called growth.
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young girl wants to fly like a witch on a broom, and one special night, through enormous effort and with the help of her brother, her black cat, and an owl, she fulfills her dream.
17) Just big enough
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Language
English
Description
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.
18) Du iz tak?
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Readers are invited to imagine the dramatic possibilities to be found in the natural world, even the humblest back garden! With exquisitely-detailed illustration that will appeal to children and art-lovers alike, and a wonderfully playful invented language, we soon find ourselves speaking "Bug" ... Du iz tak? What is that?
19) What's this?
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English
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A young girl, assisted by a bird and a marmalade cat, helps a seed to grow into a beautiful flower, then shares its seeds with others.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
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