Julius Lester

From "Why the Cricket Has Elbows on His Legs":

The first thing you have to understand is that the world today is different than it was back when these stories took place. For one thing, folks were bigger then. My great-grandaddy said his great-grandaddy's great-grandaddy's great-grandaddy was so big that it took three of him to make one of him, if you understand what I'm saying and didn't get lost among the hims. People have swunk up since them days. My great-grandaddy's great-great-grandaddy said it's because folks have stopped eating raw meat and gone to messing with tofu and bean sprouts. That will certainly swunk you up.