Picture books that will steal your heart
I FINALLY got to read "Last Stop on Market Street" by Matt de la Pena. In case you haven't heard, it won the Newbery award as well as a Caldecott honor. That's pretty unusual but one look at this book and you'll see why everyone was putting it up for awards. The story is about CJ who lives in a big city. CJ is leaving church with his grandmother and wants to go play, but they have somewhere else they need to go. CJ sees a lot of negative things as they ride the bus but his grandmother only sees positives. The language in this one is terrific and will go a long way with the little kids and oral language. The pictures are flat, folk lore kinds of pictures that still manage to look modern and up to date. It's also terrific to see the kind of multiculturalism infused in this book so it doesn't feel put on or forced-it's about a community of different kinds of people and lots of different kinds of people are present. This one would be gre...