A Tiny Family
by Norman Bridwell
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A tiny girl and her tiny brother embark on a perilous journey into the house of a giant to retrieve their grandfather's umbrella.Tags
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A tiny girl takes care of her brother and grandpa while her parents and grandma go on a trip. "Tiny" means just a few inches tall. Bridwell's imaginative ideas of how and where they live should encourage young readers to imagine what they would do. There are other stories, bigger than this one, that deal with similar people and circumstances; e.g., The Borrowers series by Mary Norton and The Littles series by John Peterson.
In this littles type story, the little girl details her daiy life in the garden. She also talks about an adventure she had retrieving an umbrella from a giant person after it got lodged in her dog's foot.
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Miniature, little, tiny characters -- children's/young adult fiction
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Norman Bridwell was born on February 15, 1928 in Kokomo, Indiana. He attended the John Herron Art Institute from 1945 to 1949 and Cooper Union Art School from 1952 to 1953. After graduating from Cooper Union, he worked first as a messenger for a lettering company and then as an artist designer for Raxon Fabrics Company. After that, he spent three show more years with H. D. Rose and Company as an artist, before becoming a freelance artist in 1956. In 1963, he published his first children's book, Zany Zoo, as well as his first Clifford book, Clifford the Big Red Dog. During his lifetime, he wrote and illustrated more than 150 books including The Witch Next Door, A Tiny Family, Clifford Goes to Kindergarten, and Clifford Celebrates Hanukkah. He died following a fall at his home on December 12, 2014 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Hello Reader! (Level 1)
Vintage Scholastic (TW1179)
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- Canonical title
- A Tiny Family
- Original title
- A Tiny Family
- Original publication date
- 1968
- Dedication
- For Kim and Robert
- First words
- Hello. I'm a tiny girl. I live with my tiny family in a garden. Our home i under the flowers.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Then we went to sleep and dreamed about giant people.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
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- ASINs
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