![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone had a chance to fill out a ballot and vote for their favorite. With help from our friends at BostonCares, Barnes & Noble at the Prudential Center, the Boston Children’s Museum, the Roosevelt K-8 in Hyde Park, and the Haynes Early Education Center in Roxbury, we came up with a winner. We shared Sloth Slept On by Frann Preston-Gannon, Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Peña (illustrated by Christian Robinson), and Leo: A Ghost Story by Mac Barnett (also illustrated by Christian Robinson) with kids all over the city. This year ReadBoston staff narrowed the choices down to three and then we took the show on the road. Overall, we are looking for a book that is unique and takes children somewhere they’ve never been before. The book can be funny, it can be serious, it can be fiction or nonfiction. We look for a storyline that is interesting children should be eager to see what happens. We want illustrations that draw the reader in and help tell the story. We consider books that engage children ages 4-8 with a theme that strongly resonates with them. Also, perhaps, we learn that we do not need things to make us happy.Every spring, ReadBoston visits libraries all over the city looking for engaging picture books that were published the previous year. Without being didactic, this story teaches the reader, along with the boy, the value of getting out into the world and connecting with it, appreciating rather than fearing diverse types of people, and trying to look at it all through eyes and ears that are opened wide. The characters on the bus are an assortment of ages, sexes, and ethnicities: one with whole-body tattoos, one holding a jar of butterflies, a guitarist, a dog, and others. Their bus "breathes fire," the driver does magic tricks, the man may be blind but he "sees" with his ears and nose, and so on. Show moreĪs CJ and his grandmother hop on the city bus and head across town, he begins to ask questions: Why don't we have a car? Why do we have to stand out here in the rain? Why can't that man see? Why is it dirtier on this side of town? Nana, in all her wisdom, gently answers his questions, helps awaken his imagination, and shows him that beauty is all around him, nestled in the routine things of city life. This is a quiet book with an amazingly powerful message about learning to live comfortably amid the diversity of ordinary life. The language is simple and poetic, the warm-hued artwork vibrantly energetic, and the tone lovingly accepting. ![]() This valuable resource guides teachers with ways to add more rigor with complex literature. By answering her grandson's questions, she gently imparts her wisdom to him on a crosstown bus trip that takes them from church to the soup kitchen where they help out each Sunday after church. The Last Stop on Market Street: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides lesson plans and activities for this award-winning literary work. Nana, a strong, graceful African-American grandmother, believes in finding beauty in the world around her. Without being heavy-handed or didactic, it teaches the value, and fun, of acceptance, generosity, appreciation, and imagination in a less than perfect world. Parents need to know that Matt de la Pena's tender picture book Last Stop on Market Street, which won the 2016 Newbery Medal as well as a 2016 Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award for illustrator Christian Robinson, is aimed at younger readers but holds valuable, uplifting life lessons for all ages. ![]()
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