![]() From the safe remove of adulthood, Stitches reads like a how-not-to guidebook on child-rearing.Ĭonsider: Small's father, a radiologist in the 1950s, repeatedly gave the young boy high-dose X-ray treatments for his sinus problems. Small's scars - both literal and metaphoric - and the questions raised by this chilling, unsentimental, beautifully drawn book are the sort kids shouldn't have to confront. Stitches isn't profane or risque no, the reason this book should be snatched from the hands of any child who might happen upon it is that what Small endured under his parents' roof is so difficult to process. ![]() Award-winning children's book author and illustrator David Small ( Imogene's Antlers, Fenwick's Suit) has written an illustrated memoir of his childhood that's strictly for grown-ups. ![]()
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