Books For Keeps
  • Home
  • Reviews
  • Articles
  • Past Issues
  • Latest Issue
  • Authors and Artists
  • Latest News
  • Search
  • Menu Menu
November 1, 2013/in Picture Book 5-8 Infant/Junior /by Angie Hill
BfK Rating:
BfK 203 November 2013
Reviewer: Margaret Mallett
ISBN: 978-1406348194
Price: £11.75
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Genre: Picture Book
Age Range: 5-8 Infant/Junior
Length: 32pp
Buy the Book

The Tiny King

Author: Taro Miura

This striking picturebook tells an engaging fairy tale, and like many fairy tales it illuminates what is truly important in life. The tiny king has a big palace and many big guards to protect him. Everything is vast and that is the problem for such a small person. What use is it having a large horse if it throws you off? Or a huge table groaning with food that is too much for one tiny person to eat?  There is a solution. All loneliness and sadness is banished when the tiny king falls in love with a Big Princess. Soon children are born to share the big castle and its big contents and, most importantly, they show the king the joys of family life. A spare written text is combined with art work which is made arresting by a bold black line round intensely coloured geometric shapes.  I particularly like the use of a restricted palate on some double spreads – black, white and turquoise for the giant bath tub scene and black, gold and brown for the king’s gigantic bed. This book beguiles with its interesting illustrations and promises to be a splendid introduction to the fairy tale genre for the under eights.

Share this entry
  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on WhatsApp
  • Share on Pinterest
  • Share on LinkedIn
  • Share on Reddit
  • Share by Mail
http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/bfklogo.png 0 0 Angie Hill http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/bfklogo.png Angie Hill2013-11-01 01:00:152021-10-20 13:01:35The Tiny King

Search for a specific review

Author Search

Search







Generic filters




Filter by Member Types


Book Author

Download BfK Issue Bfk 272 May 2025
Skip to an Issue:

About Us

Launched in 1980, we’ve reviewed hundreds of new children’s books each year and published articles on every aspect of writing for children.

Read More

Follow Us

Latest News

Effervescent, scintillating, riveting!’ Collection of ‘colossal’ word poems wins the CLiPPA

June 20, 2025

Winners of the 2025 Carnegie Medals announced

June 19, 2025

Inclusive Books for Children book-gifting scheme expands again

June 18, 2025

Contact Us

Books for Keeps,
30 Winton Avenue,
London,
N11 2AT

Telephone: 0780 789 3369

ISSN: 0143-909X (this is our International Standard Serial Number).

© Copyright 2025 - Books For Keeps | Proudly Built by Lemongrass Media - Web Design Buckinghamshire
The Dragon with a Big Nose  Diamond
Scroll to top