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Giant on the Shore

Alfonso Ochoa

Illustrator: Azul López

Ages: 6+

Published: 2024

Publisher: Transit Children's Editions/Transit Books

ISBN: 978-1-945492-87-7

Keywords: Magical Realism-Community, emotions, loneliness

Through footprints, shadows, and negative space, moody acrylic paintings reveal a timid giant lingering in the shallows as the narrator imagines him coming ashore and meeting the townspeople.