Gigante poco a poco

In my school we were all the same, though we didn’t have the same colour hair, or eyes or skin… Well, there was one boy called Manuel who really was different. It wasn’t obvious at first, but then he began to undergo strange changes that alarmed and amused us. He was turning giant by stages. One day his feet grew, the next his eyes… This had its advantages and disadvantages. It gave us quite a fright sometimes! We knew he was harmless, but the people in the next village didn’t feel the same when he uprooted a tree. He didn’t mean to. He just wanted to get at a kite the wind had stolen from us.