Little Passenger
Little Passenger.
I have made space for you inside my heart.
It will always be a little bigger than you are.
To give you room to grow.
Little Passenger is a stunning love letter to mothers and babies - with a bookplate for personalization, this is an ideal keepsake and go-to baby shower, naming ceremony or christening gift for any expectant mother and sure to be a natural classic.
Mother and baby are growing together and getting ready to greet the world. Through simple, deeply moving words and truly stunning illustrations, we share an intimate journey through pregnancy and watch a baby develop from a little pea to pumpkin-sized to ... a baby, in their mother's arms.
This picture book journey encapsulates all the vulnerability, hope and tenderness of a new pregnancy and the deeply felt connection between a mother and her unborn child. It also includes a sensitively worded dedication to all the little passengers who never made it, acknowledging that many pregnancy journeys are not always straightforward.
The debut picture book from Deirdre Sullivan is perfectly matched with Jessica Love, the illustrator of Julian Is a Mermaid, who illustrates this language of movement and light and love, using colour and space like never seen before on a picture book page.
Deirdre Sullivan is a writer and teacher from Galway. She has written seven acclaimed books for young adults, including Savage Her Reply, Perfectly Preventable Deaths and Tangleweed and Brine. She was the recipient of the CBI Book of the Year Award in 2018 and the An Post Irish Book Award for YA in 2020. Her short fiction has appeared in Banshee and The Dublin Review. She lives in Dublin. Find her on Instagram or X as @propermiss.
Jessica Love is an actor and the author-illustrator of Julian Is a Mermaid, her debut picture book that won the Bologna Ragazzi Award and Klaus Flugge Prize, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2019. She is also the author-illustrator of Julian at the Wedding and A Bed of Stars. She has a BA in studio art from the University of California, Santa Cruz, as well as a graduate degree from Juilliard. She has appeared in plays both on and off Broadway. Jessica Love lives in Brooklyn, USA. Find her on Instagram as @jesslovedraws.