- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Walker Books Ltd (1 Sep 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0744592682
- ISBN-13: 978-0744592689
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 25.4 x 1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,918,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When Antonio goes to visit his lovely gran on the other side of the world, he has a whale of a time. But he keeps getting smaller and smaller. He's missing his mum, that's the problem, and it's time he went home. So off he sets - and that's when little Antonio's big adventures begin.
About the Author
Malachy Doyle grew up in Northern Ireland and now lives with his family in Wales. Carll Cneut studied graphic design at the School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium, where he now lives. He is an award-winning children's book illustrator in Belgium.
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Tale of a young boy who misses his mother so much he grows smaller
20 July 2010
Format:Paperback
This imaginative tale of a young boy and his adventures far away from home is full of lots of creative flair. The boy, who is visiting his grandmother, begins to miss his mother. Over time he begins to grow smaller and smaller. Eventually his grandmother tells him the reason he is growing smaller is because he misses his mother so much. She announces that it is time for him to return to his home When he is reunited with his mother he grows and he grows.
DeeDee Fox, author and illustrator, The Ruby Red Slippers
DeeDee Fox, author and illustrator, The Ruby Red Slippers
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Are you a single mother?
6 Dec 2006
Format:Paperback
...buy this book for your girl or boy!
I have just had the pleasure of reading [and buying] this book about little [and littler, and then bigger] Antonio.
It is a great book. And I am 43 years old, [as of yesterday, in fact!]
Often, children's books have very powerful family images, within them. And that is all well and good if the child that reads them is a son or daughter of a mother-father parental team.
But what if they aren't?
For this Christmas season I have been exploring the bookstores for good gift ideas for a single mother's daughter. A daughter that loves books. This particular mother has enough moments in any given week where the issue of "where is my daddy?" becomes.... an issue requiring an answer. Why make a child's reading experience yet another such occassion?
Well, in this book by Malachy Doyle, little [unexplainably shrunken] Antonio meets a ship's captain, a train engineer, and a cowboy. All of them male, none of them father [per se].
Perfect.
The significant adults in his life are a grandmother and a mother.
It is a wonderful story with beautiful illustrations by Carll Cneut.
Love from his mother makes Antonio grow up to be big and strong.
I have just had the pleasure of reading [and buying] this book about little [and littler, and then bigger] Antonio.
It is a great book. And I am 43 years old, [as of yesterday, in fact!]
Often, children's books have very powerful family images, within them. And that is all well and good if the child that reads them is a son or daughter of a mother-father parental team.
But what if they aren't?
For this Christmas season I have been exploring the bookstores for good gift ideas for a single mother's daughter. A daughter that loves books. This particular mother has enough moments in any given week where the issue of "where is my daddy?" becomes.... an issue requiring an answer. Why make a child's reading experience yet another such occassion?
Well, in this book by Malachy Doyle, little [unexplainably shrunken] Antonio meets a ship's captain, a train engineer, and a cowboy. All of them male, none of them father [per se].
Perfect.
The significant adults in his life are a grandmother and a mother.
It is a wonderful story with beautiful illustrations by Carll Cneut.
Love from his mother makes Antonio grow up to be big and strong.
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