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The Shortest Kid in the World
by Corinne Demas Bliss
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The Shortest Kid in the World
by Corinne Demas Bliss
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Illustrated by Nancy Poydar Published by Random House, 1994
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Emily hates being the shortest kid in her class. Everyone calls her names.
Shrimp. Peewee. Peanut. Munchkin. She can't stand it anymore! Then a new girl
moves into town. And she's even shorter than Emily! But wait -- how come nobody's
calling her any names?
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1. Ask for it at your local library. If they don't have it, they may be able to get it for you from another library. 2. Order it on-line. |
Check out two other Step Into Reading books, Snow Day (also featuring Emily and Marietta) and The Perfect Pony.
Nancy
Poydar has always loved to draw. When she was a girl she had loved Little
Lulu comic books and hung the covers in her room. They inspired her to
draw her own characters—ballet dancers with impossibly long legs, queens with
changeable gowns, and boy and girl twins with names like Paul and Pauline.
Nancy was an only child and entertained herself by acting out stories about
the dancers, the queens and the twins. She gave drawing lessons to her friends
and told them stories with her pictures. Nancy says, “It was only natural
that teaching, drawing, and stories would be central to my life. I wasn’t
good at ballet.”
Nancy
has illustrated numerous children’s books, including ones she’s written herself,
like Mailbox Magic, First Day Hooray and Snip, Snip, Snow.
She taught sixth grade for fourteen years, so she has a special knack for
stories that have classroom settings--like The Shortest Kid in the World
and Snow Day.
By coincidence, Nancy and I both graduated from Tufts University, both summer on Cape Cod, and both of us own bearded collies.
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