Publisher's synopsis
A meteoric new work from award-winning author-illustrator Zeno Sworder about hope for the future, the power of small beings and the special friendship of trees.
When a picture-book maker runs out of stories, his pencil decides it’s time to tell her own…
[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]My first memories were of darkness and reaching for sunlight. My roots connected me to everything. I was small but I was also the forest.[/perfectpullquote]
Here is the story of a green giant and a small wanderer who formed a friendship that spanned lifetimes.
From the award-winning author of My Strange Shrinking Parents comes a luminescent and hopeful tale about our living natural world.
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Awards
- 2026 CBCA Notable Picture Book of the Year
Zeno Sworder is an award-winning writer and artist who lives in Melbourne with his young family. After studying Chinese literature and migration law at university, he ended up as a dish washer. Later, he went on to work as a journalist, an English language teacher, a consular officer, an advocate for refugees and immigrants and a jewellery designer. He is a lover of all stationery but has a particular soft spot for pencils. Once I was a Giant is his third picture book. His previous books are This Small Blue Dot and My Strange Shrinking Parents.
Bio and photo: Thames & Hudson Australia
