Age: Preschool-Kindergarten
Family: Mom & daughter

Ugh, was that repetition boring and annoying. I kept waiting for it to change just a little bit. However, this would be a cute way for a parent and child to laugh about the concept of "when I was small" as a literal interpretation. Unfortunately, the repetition is more suited for a toddler age and the humor is more suited for an older age.

It would also be fun to pair an activity such as drawing what you could do if you were teeny tiny.

Cute story and I love the vintage looking illustrations. There are a few I would tear out, frame and hang on my wall...if it wasn't a library book of course:)

Very nostalgic.

I think I missed something in reading this one....

I haven't read When You Were Small yet bc I'm a #fakefan but this is The Best from endpaper to endpaper

Beautiful illustrations and a cute story.

I think I missed something in reading this one....

I don’t get it. The art is cute, and the last page saved it from getting one star.

Henry asks his parents what they were like when they were small. The book starts out normally enough with his mother explaining that she was called Dot because her full name, Dorothea, was too big for her. But then things get creative! Dot was so small she wore the same shoes as her doll. She swam in the birdbath. She jumped rope with a piece of yarn. Her bed was a mitten. Her father built her a doll house, and she lived in it. At the end of this story from his mother, the two of them agree that one of the reasons that his mother looked forward to growing up was to share stories with a child of her own.

Read the rest of my review on my blog, Waking Brain Cells.