Three starred reviews called Small Things “monumental” (Booklist), “superb” (School Library Journal) and “intense” (Foreword Reviews). In this short, wordless graphic picture book, a young boy feels alone with his anxiety. He isn’t fitting in well at school. His grades are slipping. He’s even lashing out at those who love him.
Talented Australian artist Mel Tregonning created Small Things in the final year of her life. In her emotionally rich illustrations, the boy’s worries manifest as tiny beings that crowd around him constantly, overwhelming him and even gnawing away at his very self. The striking imagery is all the more powerful when, overcoming his isolation at last, the boy discovers that the tiny demons of worry surround everyone, even those who seem to have it all together.
This short but hard-hitting wordless graphic picture book gets to the heart of childhood anxiety and opens the way for dialogue about acceptance, vulnerability, and the universal experience of worry.
- ISBN10 1772780421
- ISBN13 9781772780420
- Publish Date 1 March 2018 (first published 6 April 2017)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Pajama Press
- Format Hardcover (Reinforced Binding)
- Pages 40
- Language English
- URL http://pajamapress.ca/book/small_things/