Kidogo [Hardcover]

Anik McGrory (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up

Kidogo is sure he’s the tiniest creature on earth. All the other animals are so much bigger than he is. Kidogo sets out on a journey—through the woodlands, over the plains, down to the river—to see if he can find an animal smaller than he is. Is it possible that Kidogo is exactly the right size after all? Heartwarming illustrations and a gentle story will inspire and reassure young children who are just starting to find their own way in a big world.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Starred Review. PreSchool-Grade 1–Kidogo is small…for an elephant. He needs help reaching the tender acacia leaves, crossing the flooding river, and taking a dust bath. Determined to find someone as small as he, he searches the woodlands, the flooding river, and the plains, and just as he gives up, he feels an itching and a tickling and discovers tiny ants around him. Kidogo helps them find acacia leaves, cross the flooding river, and take a dust bath, while following them through the vast land to his home. It is there, with his cousins, his aunties, and his mama, that Kidogo realizes that He was just right–for a little elephant. The poetic text is perfectly matched with pencil-and-watercolor illustrations that depict a warm and lovely home in a land where Kidogo …slept through nights that were deeper than his dreams. This sweet, enchanting story is just right.–Rebecca Sheridan, Easttown Library & Information Center, Berwyn, PA
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About the Author

Anik McGrory studied illustration at Rhode Island School of Design and is the author and illustrator of Mouton’s Impossible Dream, which was an ABA Pick of the Lists. An American, Anik currently lives in England with her husband and their baby.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens (August 25, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582349746
• ISBN-13: 978-1582349749
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,631,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Illustrator Anik McGrory studied illustration at Rhode Island School of Design. She loves to travel and live in different parts of the world with her husband, Glenn, her little boy, Noel, her baby daughter, Solenn, and her dogs, Moxie and Zephyr. Right now she's living in Tarrytown, NY.