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The blue whale is the biggest creature on Earth. But a hollow Mount Everest could hold billions of whales! And though Mount Everest is enormous, it is pretty small compared to the Earth. This book is an innovative exploration of size and proportion.

A pygmy shrew is small - it's among the littlest mammals! A ladybug is even smaller, but it hardly seems tiny when you compare it to a protozoa! And there are many things smaller still-so small that we can see them only with a microscope. Would you believe there are particles that are so tiny that we can't measure their exact size? Explore the huge world of the very small!

Inside this book you'll find all sorts of itty-bitty animals: dogs, pigs, frogs, lizards and more.==

Learn what it's like to come face-to-face with some of the dinosaurs that once roamed the Earth through these "actual-size" illustrations.

A child imagines all the things to be done when one is bigger.

A boy and his dog present amusing counting, size comparison, and mathematical facts.

Dot proves she is not little by standing up to a school bully.

Discusses and gives examples of the size and weight of various animals and parts of animals.

A dog's owner describes how Tiny grew from a very small puppy to a very big dog.

A child imagines how much larger things such as crumbs, puddles, trees, and even babies would seem to an ant.