The Growing Story

The Growing Story

Ruth Krauss and Helen Oxenbury

This story was about a little boy who watches everything on the farm grow and worries that he is not growing by comparing himself against the chicks, the puppy, the trees and the crops.

The book contains quite a lot of text on each page, but the author uses the changing of the seasons and growth of the plants and animals to point out that just because we cannot see something it does not mean that it is not occurring.

The growing story could be used in the classroom to discuss how we grow and there is a height chart that comes with the book that could be used to record younger students' heights at the start of the term and then again at the end to see how they have grown.