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When you live in a city, nature's successes can feel like impositions. We have too many pigeons. Too many squirrels. Too many sparrows, and roaches, and ants. Too many . . . flowers? Flowers we don’t seem to mind as much but we certainly don’t pay any attention to them. Not if we’re adults, anyway. Kids, on the other hand, pay an exquisite amount of attention to anything on their eye level. Particularly if it’s a spot of tangible beauty available to them for the picking. Picture books have so many functions, but one of them is tapping into the mindset of people below the ages of 9 or 10. A good picture book gets down to a child’s eye level, seeing what they’re seeing, reveling in what they’re reveling in. Perspective and subject matter, art and heart, all combine with JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith’s Sidewalk Flowers. Bright spots of joy and comfort, sometimes it takes a kid to see what anyone else might claim isn’t even there.
A girl and her father leave the grocery to walk the city streets home. As he leads, he is blind to the things she sees. A tattooed stranger. A woman in a cab. And on one corner, small dandelions poking out of the sidewalk. As the two walk she finds more and more of the beauties, and gathers them into a bouquet. Once that's done she finds ways of giving them out. Four to the dead bird on the sidewalk. One to the homeless man asleep on the bench. Five tucked into the collar of a dog. Home once more she plants flowers in her mother's hair and behind her brothers' ears. Then, with the last blossom, she tucks it behind her own ear. That done, she's ready to keep walking, watching and noticing.
Now JonArno Lawson, I know. If I had my way his name would grace the tongue of every children’s librarian in America.Read more ›
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One of the most beautiful picture books I have ever seen. Wordless (you don't need them one little bit with this book), poignant and utterly charming. A little girl walking with her dad gathers flowers from various nooks and crannies in the city. She eventually disperses them amongst the homeless, animals (living and deceased), her family and lastly herself. Her gifts are transformative to the receivers. Too bad the author doesn't live in the states. It would be an easy Caldecott 2016 win. The illustrator works pure magic. Magnificent.
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Lovely, lovely little wordless picture book. You know, sometimes these simple lovely books are just the right thing. This little gem is perfect when you're in a bad mood or stressed out or to share with a special child. "Written" by poet JonArno Lawson and illustrated by Sydney Smith, this is a tale about about "noticing"- little thinsg that we often, in todays hurly-burly rat-race often go unnoticed.
You could say the plot is simple- a child who is still young enough to notice- spots various wildflowers/weeds on a busy city streetscape, and takes them along and a adventure walking with the father- who is totally distracted by his electronic tether.
Simple, beautiful and all about the little joys of sharing- and noticing.
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I'm a big girl...fifty-something...and this brought me straight back home to my childhood! Oh sure, my parents did not have cell phones, but I remember going with them on errands, walking along and doing the very same things the little girl in this book did. The page where she finds the bird, oh that made my heart ache with remembrance of how a death could move us emotionally, young as we were! This is a lovely book to buy for a grandchild (which I did), to "read" together and inspire conversation about all kinds of topics that touch all of us in the past or present. It's a story for everyone to enjoy.
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