• Age: 3 to 6
• Grade: p to 1
• Reading age: 3 to 6

Eddie Longpants is big. Really big. He has long legs and huge feet and gangly arms that dangle down from his shoulders and bump into everything. Every day at school, his classmates find new ways to bully him. When things get too painful, he takes refuge under his favorite tree.

But one day the bullying goes too far and the teacher notices. Then Eddie shows his tormentor that there's more than one way to behave. In the end Eddie and his classmates realize that being big isn't so bad after all, especially when you have a big heart.

MIREILLE LEVERT, diplômée en Arts visuels de l’UQÀM, travaille en littérature jeunesse. Elle écrit et illustre ses propres textes. Elle a remporté deux fois le prix du Gouverneur général du Canada pour ses illustrations. Avec Quand j’écris avec mon cœur elle choisit une nouvelle voie, la poésie pour l’écriture et l’élaboration de ses illustrations. Pour elle désormais chaque jour est un poème qu’elle reçoit avec ses yeux, ses oreilles et son cœur. L’album est finaliste au prix du Gouverneur général du Canada et au prix TD. Elle vit à Montréal, Québec, et aime partager avec les enfants la joie de créer en mots et en images.

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A story told with gentle innocence. Eddie Longpants is about appreciating differences and, as such, it stands out in a crowd.

School Library Journal

The medium is as gentle delivered as the message of tolerance for those who are different.

Globe and Mail

This story explores one of the strategies that help people who are bullied – having a friend. Just one friend can make a difference to the person who is bullied and help that person feel accepted

Teaching By The Book

This comforting resolution to the problem of difference may be just the anodyne fantasy needed by picture-book readers who are beginning to brave the terrors of kindergarten.

Quill & Quire

[This] gentle, charmingly illustrated book will intrigue children with its unusual design...With its themes of appreciating individual differences, bullying, and forgiveness, Eddie Longpants would be an excellent classroom read aloud to generate discussion of these issues with young audiences and to promote self-esteem. Highly recommended.

Canadian Children's Literature - CBRA