Once There Were Giants

An easy-to-read, first person narrative of a female child's changing perceptions of the world around her as she grows from baby to motherhood. In a series of snapshot illustrations, we see the transition from the time when her world seemed full of Giants to the time when the narrator herself becomes one of them. Turning the pages of this book is like looking through a family photo album. Penny Dale's watercolour illustrations are both realistic and sensitive and, as a bonus, offer a history lesson documenting the changes in family life and dress over a generation: look carefully at the first and final illustrations.