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Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 3-Cocca-Leffler re-creates a favorite memory from her childhood-going to Boston on Saturdays to shop with her mother and younger sister. She and her sibling know all of the bus drivers, and one in particular, Bill, is their favorite. He gives them free rides down the block, takes an interest in their ball games, and even helps them off the bus with their packages after a day of shopping. They return the favor by always remembering to save him a cannoli, fresh from the bakery. Text and illustrations combine to paint a vivid picture of Boston during a more leisurely decade, and of the North Side, an Italian enclave of small stores where even today shopkeepers and customers know one another by name. The language is simple and unadorned, as befits the child narrator. The artist's double-page spreads, rendered in acrylic, are large enough for group sharing. They contain such touches of humor as a large woman trying to stuff herself into a dress at Filene's Basement, the siblings trying on oversized hats, and oranges tumbling from a stand at the outdoor vegetable market. The girls and their mother eat ice cream at Bailey's on chairs with metal heart-shaped backs. Cars with fishtail fins roll down the street while laundry hangs overhead, suspended from one window to another. A charming slice of life in a time past.
Marianne Saccardi, Norwalk Community College, CT
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Parents' Choice®
Most young listeners will be sympathetic to the excitement felt by two small sisters when the bus that goes "all the way into Boston" passes down their suburban street. Buses and trains are almost magical conveyances to children, offering them transport into the wider world beyond their doorsteps. The author-illustrator captures the look and feel of a suburb (with city skyscrapers beckoning in the distance), and the excitement of shopping in Filene's Basement (the original one) and then eating "a big ice cream sundae" at Bailey's (only Bostonians will realize how much of a nostalgia trip this is, since Bailey's has been gone for more than a decade). It is hard to predict how much resonance shopping in Boston's North End, or buying vegetables and fruit at the Haymarket will have for children living elsewhere, but the pleasure of riding a public conveyance to a new and exotic destination is nicely captured in this low-key text with evocative pictures. A 2000 Parents' Choice® Approved winner.
Kindergarten-Grade 3-Cocca-Leffler re-creates a favorite memory from her childhood-going to Boston on Saturdays to shop with her mother and younger sister. She and her sibling know all of the bus drivers, and one in particular, Bill, is their favorite. He gives them free rides down the block, takes an interest in their ball games, and even helps them off the bus with their packages after a day of shopping. They return the favor by always remembering to save him a cannoli, fresh from the bakery. Text and illustrations combine to paint a vivid picture of Boston during a more leisurely decade, and of the North Side, an Italian enclave of small stores where even today shopkeepers and customers know one another by name. The language is simple and unadorned, as befits the child narrator. The artist's double-page spreads, rendered in acrylic, are large enough for group sharing. They contain such touches of humor as a large woman trying to stuff herself into a dress at Filene's Basement, the siblings trying on oversized hats, and oranges tumbling from a stand at the outdoor vegetable market. The girls and their mother eat ice cream at Bailey's on chairs with metal heart-shaped backs. Cars with fishtail fins roll down the street while laundry hangs overhead, suspended from one window to another. A charming slice of life in a time past.
Marianne Saccardi, Norwalk Community College, CT
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Parents' Choice®
Most young listeners will be sympathetic to the excitement felt by two small sisters when the bus that goes "all the way into Boston" passes down their suburban street. Buses and trains are almost magical conveyances to children, offering them transport into the wider world beyond their doorsteps. The author-illustrator captures the look and feel of a suburb (with city skyscrapers beckoning in the distance), and the excitement of shopping in Filene's Basement (the original one) and then eating "a big ice cream sundae" at Bailey's (only Bostonians will realize how much of a nostalgia trip this is, since Bailey's has been gone for more than a decade). It is hard to predict how much resonance shopping in Boston's North End, or buying vegetables and fruit at the Haymarket will have for children living elsewhere, but the pleasure of riding a public conveyance to a new and exotic destination is nicely captured in this low-key text with evocative pictures. A 2000 Parents' Choice® Approved winner.
Reviewed by Selma G. Lanes, Parents' Choice® 2000
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