size perception

After orphaned twelve-year-old Michael Pine, who seems headed for trouble, meets old Lem Gulliver, he finds new purpose as protector of the Lilliputians who live in Lem's back garden, even if that means saving them from one another.

Simple text and photographs of animals show the difference between big and small, long and short, tall and short, and wide and narrow.

Color photographs and simple text examine the basic concept of big and little.

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

Brief presentations of facts about some of the smallest things in the world.

Brief presentations of facts about some of the longest things in the world.

Brief presentations of facts about some of the biggest things in the world, such as the blue whale and the Grand Canyon.

Compares the sizes of animals, insects. vehicle, mountains, and planets, using pictures and text.

Belinda, a tiny girl with enormous feet, is very unhappy when she is cast as a clown in her school's talent show, but she finds a way to ease her misery when she observes an older student practicing a ballet routine and falls in love with dancing.

When the other barnyard animals comment on how tiny the littlest chick is, the proud little one peeps louder, stands taller, and runs faster than any of them.