size perception

Colorful illustrations display a familiar object and the simple text asks: "Who hid the ...?" It is answered by looking at the page on the right with its whole picture in which the object has been camouflaged.

Presents information about very large things, including the Empire State Building, the blue whale, the Atlas moth, the Queen Mary 2, and giant sequoias.

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

Photographs explore the concept of size, including big and little, big, bigger, biggest, and same size.

Introduces 19 geometric figures with activities involving shapes and size relationships.

Ernest, a moose who is too large to fit into the book itself, receives some help from his chipmunk friend to build gatefolds using tape and pieces of paper.

Presents a pop-up book with pull-tabs in which Big Frog, with help from her good friends, attempts to fit in even though the book itself cannot hold her.

Poetry and facts offer a look at the relativity of measurement terms, such as big and small, fast and slow, deep and high.

A little boy presents his perspective of his adoring father, who seems so large that clouds rest on his shoulders and birds nest in his hair.

Simple rhymes point out the differences between big and small.