My Little One
My Little One Winner of the 2016 Bologna Ragazzi Award, My Little One is a series of sparse and rhythmic images drawn in simple grey pencil, measuring like a metronome the boundless love between…
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My Little One
Winner of the 2016 Bologna Ragazzi Award, My Little One is a series of sparse and rhythmic images drawn in simple grey pencil, measuring like a metronome the boundless love between mother and son.A mother, welcoming her tiny son into the world, tells him the story of their lives, whispering to him as she swings him gently around. Albertine's weightless strokes and billowing bodies recall the flitting procession of a flipbook or an ephermeral notebook sketch. With each successive page, he grows while she shrinks, until she is being held by the man he has become.
Filled with poetry and questioning, Germano whittles his words down - each precise line reminds us of the pithy goodness of childhood. She choreographs the peculiar dance of aging, of the way our bodies fold, lean, tuck into one another as we grow old. An eloquent portrait of life's waxing and waning, My