"The little bush plane quietly watches the bigger and faster planes in the sky. But when a storm hits and people are stranded on a forested mountaintop, only one plane can come to the rescue."--

Illustrations and simple text relate how Zip, the unlucky alien magician, zaps Bip so they can play some ball, but things do not go according to plan when Bip grows so big that he flies away like a giant balloon. Includes note to parents, introduction to the books vocabulary, and reading comprehension questions.

Uses different animals to introduce the concept of size, comparing, for example, the length of a ring-tailed lemur's tail with that of a Boston terrier.

A little boy's father seems so large to him that he needs a ladder to cuddle him and birds nest in his father's hair.

Sure that he is the smallest creature on earth, a young elephant leaves home and journeys over woodlands, rivers, and plains searching for someone even smaller than he is.

As Birdie and his friends try to locate a house that is just right for his size, readers learn about the concept of capacity.

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

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