Antonio On The Other Side Of The World Getting Smaller

By Malachy Doyle

Malachy Doyle's fanciful "small" tale, illustrated in delightful detail by Carll Cneut, will bring smiles to anyone who has ever missed the comforts of home. When Antonio visits his grandmother on a tiny island on the other side of the world, he has a whale of a time. But there's one slight problem: he seems to be getting smaller and smaller. Before long, he can't even throw jam sandwiches to the sea monsters because he's too small to see over the side of his grandmother's boat. "You're missing your mom," notes his granny, who tells him it's time that he headed for home. So he finds a job on a sailing ship - and then the increasingly small Antonio's big adventures really begin.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763621730
• ISBN13: 9780763621735
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.8" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Are you a single mother?

...buy this book for your girl or boy! I have just had the pleasure of reading [and buying] this book about little [and littler, and then bigger] Antonio. It is a great book. And I am 43 years old, [as of yesterday, in fact!] Often, children's books have very powerful family images, within them. And that is all well and good if the child that reads them is a son or daughter of a mother-father parental team. But what if they aren't? For this Christmas season I have been exploring the bookstores for good gift ideas for a single mother's daughter. A daughter that loves books. This particular mother has enough moments in any given week where the issue of "where is my daddy?" becomes.... an issue requiring an answer. Why make a child's reading experience yet another such occassion? Well, in this book by Malachy Doyle, little [unexplainably shrunken] Antonio meets a ship's captain, a train engineer, and a cowboy. All of them male, none of them father [per se]. Perfect. The significant adults in his life are a grandmother and a mother. It is a wonderful story with beautiful illustrations by Carll Cneut. Love from his mother makes Antonio grow up to be big and strong.