 A young girl, dressed in a red hoodie, and her father walk home from the grocery store through the busy city streets of their black-and-white world in this tender wordless picture book. The digitally edited pen-and-ink and watercolor graphic novel style panels show what the girl sees – colorful weeds and wildflowers sprouting through the cracks in the sidewalks. She gathers these sidewalk flowers. Her father talks on his cellphone and doesn’t even notice. She silently gives dandelions and daffodils to a dead bird lying on the walk, lilacs to a man asleep on a bench, and at home, daisies to her mother and her two younger siblings. Slowly, her world blooms and becomes bright with color. Varying perspectives in the illustrations call attention to the child’s sense of wonder, the power of observation, and the appreciation of natural things that often go unnoticed in our busy world. mjw |
| Title: Sidewalk Flowers Author: JonArno Lawson Illustrator: Sydney Smith Publisher: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Books. Toronto Copyright: 2015 Original Language: English ISBN: 978-1-55498-4312 Hardcover pages: 32 Age range: 4-7 Genre: Wordless picture book Book setting: Toronto Author’s ethnicity: Canadian Author’s residence: Toronto, Canada Illustrator’s ethnicity: Canadian Illustrator’s residence: Toronto, Canada Awards: Author is a four-time winner of The Lion and The Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Children’s Poetry Subjects: Cities, Fathers, Flowers, Kindness, Environment, Natural world, Parents, Stories without words, Urban |
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