- Named by Resource Links as one of the Year's Best Picture Books, 2009
Reviews
The author and illustrator capture that uncomfortable in-between feeling… Plenty of children will relate…
School Library Journal, August 2009
The joy of Big or Little? is how simply it is told and how accurately its text and illustrations depict a pre-schooler’s world….a must-have classic for any library.
Resource Links, June 2009
…a concept that this newly reissued classic explores with perfect aplomb, admirably assisted by Toni Goffe, whose gentle, charming watercolours provide all the necessary visuals.
The Globe and Mail, May 9, 2009
(of the original version)
... the perfect book on dialectics for two- and three-year-olds has been published. And not just dialectics, but human dignity, humour, self-reliance, thoughtfulness and the struggle of a young child to see where he fits into the world.
Mudpie
The award-winning team of Kathy Stinson and Robin Baird Lewis have created another appealing pre-schooler. We are introduced first to his bare toes, and then to the rest of him.
Canadian Book Review Annual 1982
Which am I? Big when I can dress myself or little when I can't reach the elevator button? Such are the contradictions a young child faces - sometimes being little in terms of size and behaviour; sometimes being big when his actions are thoughtful and responsible.
Children's Choices
Stinson's text has a simple and very pleasing rhythm. Lewis' illustrations show a thoughtful and serious little boy working out his place in the world.
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