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My Strange Shrinking Parents

My Strange Shrinking Parents - Hardcover

by Zeno Sworder
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Availability:In StockContributor:Zeno SworderTheme:Topical/FamilyAudience:Ages 4-8Publish date:2023-01-10Pages:40
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Thames & HudsonISBN-13:9781760762957ISBN-10:1760762954UPC:9781760762957Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Family, Social ThemesBook Topic:Parents, Emotions & FeelingsSize:11.57 x 8.03 x 0.55 inchesWeight:1.05Product ID:SC32A3NK2P

It goes without saying that all children believe their parents to be strange. Mine were unusual for a different reason . . .

One boy's parents travel from far-off lands to improve their son's life. But what happens next is unexpected. What does it mean when your parents are different? What shape does love take? And what happens when your parents sacrifice a part of themselves for you?

In this heartbreaking and heartwarming story, Zeno Sworder reflects on his own migrant parents' sacrifices to create a universal story about what it means to give to those you love. Drawing from the sacrifices his Chinese mother made to raise her young family in a small country town, Sworder's drawings are full of beautiful detail and fairytale settings that explore his own journey from child to parent.

With humor and pathos, Sworder reflects on the strange nature of giving and receiving love and celebrates those parents who embrace a hard life for themselves in the hope of a better life for their children. Full of depth and generosity as well as insight and candor, Sworder brings this gorgeous fable to life.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Thames & HudsonISBN-13:9781760762957ISBN-10:1760762954UPC:9781760762957Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Family, Social ThemesBook Topic:Parents, Emotions & FeelingsSize:11.57 x 8.03 x 0.55 inchesWeight:1.05Product ID:SC32A3NK2P
Sworder, Zeno: - Zeno Sworder is a writer and artist who lives in Melbourne with his young family. After studying Chinese literature and migration law at university, he ended up as a dishwasher. Later, he went on to work as a journalist, an English language teacher, a consular officer, an advocate for refugees and immigrants, and a jewelry designer. He is a lover of all stationery but has a particular soft spot for pencils. Sworder is the CBCA New Illustrator of the Year 2021, and his first book This Small Blue Dot was a CBCA Notable Book, the winner of the 2021 Australian Book Designers Association's Award for Best Designed Children's Illustrated Book, and the Designers' Choice Children's/Young Adult Book of the Year.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson

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