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The boy who loved everyone

"Dimitri may be small, but his heart is as big and open as a cloudless sky. "I love you," Dimitri tells his new friends at preschool. "I love you," Dimitri tells the class guinea pig. "I love you," Dimitri tells the tree with heart-shaped leaves. So why doesn'...

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Main Author: Porter, Jane, 1964 August 30- (Author)
Other Authors: Shearring, Maisie Paradise, 1991- (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2021]
Edition: First US edition.
Subjects:
Preschool children > Juvenile fiction.
Kindness > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books for children.
Summary: "Dimitri may be small, but his heart is as big and open as a cloudless sky. "I love you," Dimitri tells his new friends at preschool. "I love you," Dimitri tells the class guinea pig. "I love you," Dimitri tells the tree with heart-shaped leaves. So why doesn't anyone say it back? Maybe there are ways of saying "I love you" without words. A heart-bursting tribute to the tender ones, like Dimitri, who spread love and kindness without hesitation, fear, or shame."--Book jacket.
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
ISBN: 9781536211238
1536211230
Author Notes: Jane Porter was a geography editor for a magazine before going to school to study illustration. She now works full time as an illustrator, writer, and teacher -- though she still loves maps! Jane Porter lives in London with her family.

Maisie Paradise Shearring won a Bologna Children's Book Fair-Fundación SM International Award for Illustration, given in recognition of a promising new talent in the field of illustration. The author-illustrator of two other books for children, she also lectures on children's book illustration. Maisie Paradise Shearring lives in Hull, England.

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