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Jacob's Tree

Holly Keller

Hardcover (Greenwillow, March 1, 1999)

Jacob is the smallest bear in his family and although everyone tells him he will grow, he finds it hard to wait, so he takes vitamins and does stretches to speed up the growth process, but with little success.
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Jacob's Tree

Holly Keller

Library Binding (Greenwillow Books, March 25, 1999)

Jacob was not tall enough to see himself in the bathroom mirror. He could not reach the cookie jar. Or get to the top of the jungle gym with his brother and sister. And taking vitamins and drinking milk and eating vegetables and doing stretches didn't help. Nothing helped. "Wait," said his mother. "Wait," said his father. And that certainly didn't help.The winter was long and cold. The tree with the line measuring Jacob's height was deep in snow. But one morning the air was warm. Jacob went into the bathroom to brush his teeth, and looked in the mirror...
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