How the Tiny People Grew Tall

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

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!