Profiles the biggest and the smallest animals on earth. Offers information on their physical characteristics and behavior, and describes how their body size benefits them. Features color photographs of record breakers, actual-size photographs, a glossary, and notes for parents and teachers.
Nell is told by her BIG sisters and her mother that she is too small to help out, but everyone, including Nell, feels differently after her forest friends give her the confidence to build a large snowman.
In 1977, best friends Lucy Small, a seventh grader from Wilmington, Delaware, who is five feet ten inches tall, and Jake Little, a dwarf, try unsuccessfully to go unnoticed during their first year of junior high school.
