The Return

A young woman gets on the bus and rides out of the big city. She arrives in the countryside, where she is as big as a giant, looming over a tiny house, a garden and her tiny grandmother. The cabbages and the apple trees are far below. Her grandmother smiles up at her in her yellow hat. The young woman bends down to give her little grandmother a big kiss, and then she smells her grandmother's cooking. She has returned home. When they sit down at the table, the young woman has shrunk to a child-like size, and the two share a meal together in the garden.

In this gentle, wordless story Natalia Chernysheva beautifully captures the feelings of coming home to comfort and memories and of returning to our childlike selves.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Published: 10/01/2019
ISBN: 9781773062099
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.50h x 7.10w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2019 pg. 95
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2019 pg. 47
School Library Journal 10/18/2019 pg. 1
Foreword 10/26/2019