New Picture Book by @mattdelapena and Christian Robinson. New picture book from Matt de la Peña with illustrations by Christian Robinson.
Milo boards the subway on a Sunday morning as nervous as a "shook-up soda."
A Tweet Thread Review.
Milo boards the subway on a Sunday morning as nervous as a "shook-up soda."
A Tweet Thread Review.
While aboard the train, he observes the other passengers, imagining their lives in extended narrative as he renders them in pictures in the notebook he carries aboard with him.
From the creators of LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET comes a new story that asks the reader to ride with Milo as he draws as many inferences as he does illustrations, arriving at deeper truths that present as lesson to the reader by the book's end.
How do we see others upon first glance? Does an image and a life become solidified within our imagined sense of others? What might our story look like to another traveler if the notebook were passed across the aisle?
MILO IMAGINES THE WORLD hits a little different than the average picture book on a similar subject. The reader is "drawn" to Milo and wonders for him for the treatment by the sister with whom is traveling on this partcular morning.
de la Peña's narrative is thoughtfully and wonderfully presented with words that do not undermine the ability of the reader to read thoughtfully. . .and poetically.
Robinson's illustrations show the depth and range of an artist who can create a sense of time travel in a stroke of a crayon making us all remember how we once saw the world. . .and perhaps how we might imagine it still today. And its people.
Immediate connections to works by authors such as Leslie Connor, Nora Raleigh Baskin, Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Jacqueline Woodson, Daniel Beaty, and Becky Birtha. @PenguinClass @ncte @ILAToday
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