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Keywords

african american, animals, assertiveness, baby, beauty, body image, caribbean, confidence, conflict resolution, cooking, deafness, diving, family, garden, gender, helping, hurricane, language, love, multicultural, ocean, opposites, pregnancy, relationship, sizes, stereotypes, technology, verbal communication, weather, wedding

Title

Tiny and Bigman

Description

Challenging stereotypical gender roles, Tiny and Bigman illustrate the unique people skills people have to help the world go around and to make a happy family. Tiny learns to use her large size, strength, and booming voice to help people in her community. Tiny falls in love with a small man who is hard of hearing. She builds their house, and he cooks and cleans.

Author

Gershater, Phillis

Publisher

Marshall Cavendish

Illustrator

Cravath, Lynne

ISBN

0-7614-5044-0

City of Publication

New York

Year of Publication

1999

Author of Abstract

Abstract Provided by Bianca Guynn, 2010

Citation

Gershater, Phillis, “Tiny and Bigman,” Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University, accessed September 24, 2023, https://dlp.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/items/show/11328.