Once There Were Giants
by Martin Waddell
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As a baby girl grows up and becomes an adult, the "giants" in her family seem to grow smaller.Tags
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Oh! Just lovely. My children are grown, and so this story and the artwork just turned me into mush. It reminds me just a bit of [b:Where Did The Baby Go?|1622562|Where Did The Baby Go? (A Little Golden Book)|Sheila Hayes|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388367509l/1622562._SX50_.jpg|1616528] so if you like that you'll love this. (And vice-versa. ;)
What made this stand out to me though was watching Uncle Tom steal almost every scene. It's a brilliant touch that makes the story that much more immediate, intimate, and authentic. Highly recommended. I will look for more by the author.
What made this stand out to me though was watching Uncle Tom steal almost every scene. It's a brilliant touch that makes the story that much more immediate, intimate, and authentic. Highly recommended. I will look for more by the author.
Story is told from a girls point of view as she grows older (authors craft). Although there is not much diversity, the story does make it seem like her Uncle lives with her, her siblings and parents which is an unregularly family dynamic.
A cute story about the circle of life. A brand new baby finds herself growing up, always being surrounded by "giants". Then one day, she grows up and has a baby of her own and realizes she is now the "giant". Great to teach children that we all start life off as babies, and eventually grow up to be the adults that our parents, grandparents, teachers, etc. are.
This is a wonderful book to use for memories that students are trying to think about. It is also a wonderful way to use the illustrations to get meaning because the author always points out the main character in the pictures.
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Martin Waddell was born April 10, 1941, in Belfast, Ireland. He always wanted to be a professional soccer player. After having played for junior teams in Ireland, he left school at fifteen and held a variety of jobs, including working at a publishing company and as a night switchboard operator for a taxi company. Waddell is now one of the most show more prolific and successful contemporary children's writers, with more than one hundred books to his credit, some of them under his pseudonym Catherine Sefton. He won the 1986 Other Award, for his book Starry Night, which was also a runner up for The Guardian Children¿s Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Young Observer Teenage Fiction Prize. He has twice won the Smarties Book Prize, for Farmer Duck and Can't You Sleep Little Bear? He also won the 1989 Kurt Mascher Award for The Park In The Dark, the 1990 Bets Book For Babies for Rosie¿s Babies and has been shortlisted for the 1992 Smarties Book Prize for Along The Lonely Road. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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