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TitchPat Hutchins
Titch
by Pat Hutchins
Titch is the smallest and always gets the smallest things, until his tiny seed grows into something considerably bigger than his brother's kite.
A story about children and families, gentle and warm in tone. We would put it with children of 3–5, and at a reading age of about 4 for reading alone.
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Our take on this book
Titch is the youngest and smallest, and everything he has is small — his kite is tiny next to his brother's and sister's, his tools, his bike with training wheels — until he plants one tiny seed, and the tiny seed grows and grows into something far bigger than anything the big ones have. Pat Hutchins tells it in a handful of words and clean, bold pictures, and every young child recognises the ache of being the littlest with the littlest things. The turn at the end, where small Titch grows the biggest thing of all, is deeply satisfying to a child who spends a lot of time being told they are too little. There is nothing in it to trouble anyone; it is gentle and warm and quietly triumphant. For a three- to five-year-old, especially a youngest child, it is a small perfect book about your turn finally coming.
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