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From this simple beginning grows a story that celebrates those little changes that tell us we're growing up! This Ruth Krauss classic enchanted young readers when it was first published in 1947. Now it blooms again with lush illustrations by one of the world's best-loved illustrators: Helen Oxenbury.



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Ruth Krauss

Ruth Ida Krauss was an American writer of children's books, including , and of theatrical poems for adult readers.



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