Winner of the 2016 Bologna Ragazzi Award, My Little One is a series
of sparse and rhythmic images drawn in simple grey pencil, measuring
like a metronome the boundless love between mother and son.
A mother, welcoming her tiny son into the world, tells him the story of
their lives, whispering to him as she swings him gently around. With
each successive page, he grows while she shrinks, until she is being
held by the man he has become. Albertine's weightless strokes and
billowing bodies recall the flitting procession of a flipbook or an
ephermeral notebook sketch. She choreographs the peculiar dance of
aging, of the way our bodies fold, lean, tuck into one another as we
grow old. Filled with poetry and questioning, Germano whittles his words
down - each precise line reminds us of the pithy goodness of childhood.
An eloquent portrait of life's waxing and waning, My Little One is a
moving celebration of constant, unconditional love.