Short Walking Tall When You're Not Tall at All |
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| Author:
| Schwartz, John |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4299-5302-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2010 |
| Publisher: | Roaring Brook Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO GROWING UP SHORT. Part science book, part memoir--a book for everyone concerned about looking (or feeling) different. When veteran journalist John Schwartz took a close look at famous height studies, he made a surprising discovery: being short doesn't have to be a disadvantage! Part advice book, part memoir, and part science primer, this fascinating book explores the marketing, psychology, and mythology behind our obsession with height...
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A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO GROWING UP SHORT. Part science book, part memoir--a
book for everyone concerned about looking (or feeling) different.
When veteran journalist John Schwartz took a close look at famous height studies, he made a surprising discovery: being short doesn't have to be a disadvantage! Part advice book, part memoir, and part science primer, this fascinating book explores the marketing, psychology, and mythology behind our obsession with height and delivers a reassuring message to kids of all types that they can
walk tall--whatever it is that makes them different.
Short is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.