Growing Like Me

by Anne Rockwell, Holly Keller (Illustrator)

Everything in nature grows up--just like you and me!
It's springtime, and the local pond is bursting with new life. Shiny black pollywogs are growing into fat frogs, and baby robins hatch from pale blue eggs. The blackberry bushes are full of sweet, juicy berries, and new monarch butterflies emerge from their cocoons. Listen closely, and you can hear the cheeping ducklings announcing, "Spring is here!"
Anne Rockwell and Holly Keller, two beloved children's book creators, team up to celebrate this season of growth.

Genres: Picture Books, Animals, Science, Nature, Nonfiction, Childrens, Storytime

24 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Randi Triantafillou · Rating 4 out of 5]

Growing Like Me, I love that this story makes a correlation about how real things in nature start out little and grow into something big and different. I like that it is descriptive to the reader and informative, an example: "White blossoms will grow into berries-black, juicy, and sweet." Also it is very inspiring to young children that they could grow up and be anything they want to be. Although I do feel the illustrations could present more feeling to go along with the text.

Randi T
(3703 class)

[Makenzie VanderHorst · Rating 5 out of 5]

It does a nice job of explaining how things grow and the illustrations are decent.Perhaps an older child would be better able to comprehend the before and after pictures of everyday creatures. For example, she is not interested in the white flowers, only the berries they become on the next page because she loves berries and can relate to it.

[Maria Salgado · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book to use with children to teach them how they are growing and how other things around them grow as well. This book can be used to talk about things in the meadow and how they grow. The illustrations are great and clear for the children to know what they are looking at.

[Caontie McNeal · Rating 4 out of 5]

We all are growing what better way to demonstrate to young children how some things grow. This book will do the job.

[Magdalena Chavez · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great science book. Shows the reader what a baby tadpole turns into a frog and others like that. Tells that everything around us grows into something bigger, something pretty, and so on.

[Alice Ball · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Anne Rockwell! Another simple book perfect for toddlers.

[Tompkins County Public Library Youth Services]

I love Anne Rockwell! A simple book about growing - perfect for toddlers.

[Sequoia Isaac · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book to bring into the classroom for a science unit. It talks about tadpoles and how they grow into frogs

[Alishea Ramsey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a great book to introduce to students during the spring. I like how it shows how things have grown as we grow. Children will find this book relatable.

[Manisha Pierre · Rating 5 out of 5]

Whether its a bush of white blossoms or frogs, This story teach real life scenarios. Its cute and colorful and explains how eventually everything grows from small to big.

[Asho · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a decent toddler/preschooler non-fiction book and has a simple concept. On one page it shows the baby/little form of something and then the next page it shows what it grows into. So it shows polliwogs and frogs, caterpillars and butterflies, etc. The illustrations didn't do much for me. They weren't bad, just not particularly memorable. I also found it strange that the book suddenly changed writing style at the very end. At first it was just descriptive, but then the last few pages directly addressed their subjects. Not a big deal, really, but it threw me off. I like my parallelism, gosh darn it!

[Katie Fitzgerald · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Aleksa Mervil · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fun and exciting book for kids. It is about a young boy observing all animals around him transform into bigger animals. It's a great way for them to learn about different animals and see how they can change from one form to another. The illustrations are bright and colorful.

[Zonia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good nonfiction title for the spring. Simple text and illustrtions that PK and K will enjoy.

[Robin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Used along with First the Egg in toddler storytime today & the two complement each other very well.

[Janna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Identifies how different things start and what they grow into--an acorn grows into an oak tree, a tadpole into a frog.

[Cara Farmer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great way to teach young children how they grow and change

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a lovely book about the life cycle and life stages, both of animals and plants. I could see it appealing to toddlers through early readers.