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  1. 1Actual Size (1900)Actual Size (1900)Published Jan 1, 1900Put your hand beside the gorilla's on the page, or see how your eye compares with a giant squid's. Jenkins's illustrations give those comparisons a scale a child can judge without a ruler. Read it when a number alone would leave the size of an animal hard to imagine.0
  2. 2A Seed Is Sleepy (2007)A Seed Is Sleepy (2007) 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2007Sylvia Long's watercolors give you a chance to compare a redwood seed with a coconut and look at the fluff tucked into a milkweed pod. Ask what you might look for if you wanted to find the seeds on a plant you already know. The pages make that a question about size, shape, and where to look.0
  3. 3A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and WonderA Drop of Water: A Book of Science and WonderWick's photographs stop a drop as it falls and show what happens when it hits a hard surface. Another image puts a snowflake close enough for you to count its points. Let a child pick one photograph and describe the detail the camera caught that their eyes might miss.0
  4. 4Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes (2014)Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes (2014)Published Jan 1, 2014Emily Sutton's illustrations enlarge living things far too small for the unaided eye. Davies uses an ant's antenna as a point of comparison before showing how microbes turn up in familiar places and help make yogurt. It's a good way into a question children can return to: how do you learn about…0
  5. 5Over and under the pond (2017)Over and under the pond (2017) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2017Christopher Silas Neal's pictures look at a pond from both sides of its surface. Above, you can see the sky reflected in the water. Below, look for minnows and tadpoles, then imagine which signs of them someone in a boat might be able to spot.0
  6. 6The moon book (1997)The moon book (1997) 9.5/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1997Gail Gibbons’s diagrams show how the moon’s orbit changes how much of its sunlit half we can see. Compare the drawings of the phases, then keep a calendar of the shapes you see outside. When the sky clears again, look for what changed since your last entry.0
  7. 7Feathers: Not Just for Flying (2014)Feathers: Not Just for Flying (2014)Published Jan 1, 2014Sarah S. Brannen's pictures set feathers and birds beside familiar objects. Compare the feathers on a willow ptarmigan's feet with snowshoes, then see what a sandgrouse's feathers have in common with a sponge. Each comparison gives children a clue to what a feather does.0
  8. 8The Secret PoolThe Secret PoolRebekah Raye's pictures make a temporary pool on the forest floor worth a second look. Search for wood frogs, spotted salamanders, and fairy shrimp, then use the sidebars to learn what brings them there. Choose it for a child who would like to know when a puddle becomes habitat.0
  9. 9Water Land: Land and Water Forms Around the WorldWater Land: Land and Water Forms Around the WorldTurn a cutout page and a lake's outline becomes the outline of an island. The same shape can describe water enclosed by land or land surrounded by water. Try finding another pair before unfolding the map to see where those shapes occur in the world.0
  10. 10Mushroom Rain (2022)Mushroom Rain (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022Jamie Green brings the view down to the forest floor. Compare the shapes of the caps before following the book's pictures out of the woods to see where airborne spores can go. Zimmermann's discussion of spores gives children a way to think about the life of a fungus beyond what they can see.0