A sophisticated and original graphic novel, about a young boy's
reaction to his father's death.
Harvey and his little brother are playing in the slushy streets of early
spring when they learn, out of the blue, that their father has died of a
heart attack. Everything changes and Harvey's favorite movie, The
Incredible Shrinking Man, suddenly begins to dominate his fantasy life.
When relatives try to get him to look at his father in his coffin,
Harvey finds himself disappearing.
Brilliantly illustrated, emotionally true and devastatingly sad, this
book is an artful and utterly convincing study of one boy's response to
great loss.
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Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language
Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text,
including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or
how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6
Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how
events are described.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says
explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of
episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot
moves toward a resolution.
