Other editions of book When You Were Small

This award-winning picture book is now available in paperback! All children like to hear stories about when they were small. In this charming story, part of the popular The Henry Books series by Sara O'Leary and Julie Morstad, a young boy and his father reminisce together before bedtime. For chidren there is a whole period of their life that they can not remember and, for all they know, it could have been the most magical time of their life. The hardcover edition of When You Were Small won the 2007 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, won First Prize at the 2007 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design, was shortlisted for the 2007 Amelia Frances Howard-GIbbon Illustrator's Award, and was a 2007 CanWest Raise a Reader Beginning Reader Pick. The other two titles in The Henry Books series include When I Was Small and Where You Came From.

"Why do I have to go to bed?" wonders a young boy in When You Were Small. His father wants him to go to bed, but he'd rather be out playing. This story addresses a common complaint heard by parents everywhere, offering a novel way to make bedtime a special part of each day. Trying to get his son to go to sleep, the father reminisces with him about when he was a child, showing him that bedtime can be something fun. Written by an award-winning playwright and illustrated with vivid images that bring the dreamlike story to life, When You Were Small is the perfect book for children in a hurry to grow up and adults who want to remember what it was like to be young.