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CM . . .
. Volume XII Number 10 . . . .January 20, 2006
excerpt: �Dad,� says Henry.
When the veil of forgetfulness begins to obscure our memory, we sometimes wonder what our life was like when we were younger. So it is with young Henry, the protagonist of Sara O�Leary�s When You Were Small. Henry makes the mistake of asking his playful father to tell about when Henry was small. The father then proceeds to reel off a litany of wildly exaggerated episodes from Henry�s early life. Julie Morstad provides the illustrations to accompany O�Leary�s concise text. Like the text, there is charm in the illustration�s simplicity. It takes talent to make complex things seem simple, and both O�Leary and Morstad succeed in this regard. Like me, you will enjoy sharing this book with the young readers in your life. This is a fun book that will free the imagination and set you on a path toward thinking of what life might have been like when YOU were small. Recommended. Gregory Bryan, a University of British Columbia PhD student, recently joined the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba.
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