How the Tiny People Grew Tall

by Nancy Wood

Book Overview

Inspired by the indigenous creation myths, Nancy Wood's fanciful tale is brought to life with rich, humorous paintings by Rebecca Walsh. A long time ago, when everything was new, the Tiny People lived in the Center of the Earth. It was hot and crowded. "Let's get out of here," says the smallest and boldest of the Tiny People under the earth. But it's not until a star crashes into the ground that they first see the blue sky above - and each other -...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763615439
• ISBN13: 9780763615437
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

great story

Great story and beautiful artwork, my kids really liked it. Better for 7-9 year old range.

Exceptional new illustrator

We loved this book! We've been fans of Rebecca Walsh's illustration since her first book, The Well at the End of the World, another story of discovery and new horizons, themes which are well matched to her orderly, lush style. We enjoy good children's book illustration a lot in our household, and I think Rebecca Walsh is doing some of the best work of the moment. The spiky tangle and high-key color of her previous work has been subdued to some degree in How the Tiny People Grew Tall, which is predominantly a work of sumptuous, subtle images. This is very sophisticated artwork. Ms. Walsh has a knack for moving the story with a hum of visual activity, or bringing it to a pause, the intricacies of her detail established in quiet, absorbing compositions. The plates with this quietude are my favorites- the Tiny People greeting a turtle who looks like an extension of the landscape in his relative immensity; or the color-suffused field of flowers he carries them through; or the gentle bear, in another adept manipulation of scale, peering down at the protagonists through a frame of velvety tulip blossoms. These images are exquisite; they have a hush which is irresistable. How the Tiny People Grew Tall came out last October, I hope we don't have to wait long for a new book by this remarkable new talent!