Book description
From the author of the award-winning picture book This Small Blue Dot comes a new tale of a family that doesnât look like all the others, carrying an enduring message of the transformative power of love, and the shape a life can take.
It goes without saying that all childrenâŠ
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1 author picked My Strange Shrinking Parents as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The watercolor illustrations in this book are absolutely gorgeous, and the story itself mixes magical realism with an insightful truth. In providing us with opportunities, our parents have to sacrifice a little bit of themselves. Throughout the book, this abstract sacrifice is portrayed by the parentâs shrinking scale. The parents offer a few inches of their height in exchange to give their child a birthday cake, education, and books. Throughout time, the reader sees the parents shrink smaller and smaller as they give more and more of themselves to the young boy. This is a book that made us wantâŠ
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