Then I would add in the word that accompany the scene:Īnd I would ask them how these words change the inferences they made about the spread. How does this scene make them feel? Who is the family? What are they watching? What clues did they use to answer these questions? Teachers’ Tools for Navigation: I’ll talk about one scene specifically, which happens to be my favorite.Īs soon as I saw this scene, I wanted to show it to students and have discussions with them. And these little boys make me feel love, love, love. ![]() When I think of this book, I think about a warm, cozy house and two little boys on my lap. I simply don’t have the words to share how absolutely beautiful this book is. The illustrations are simply marvelous and the words dance across the page. It is honest, poetically, and it treats children as the intelligent people that they are. Ricki’s Review: I am really looking forward to seeing Matt de la Peña next month during his tour! This book is absolutely stunning, and we will certainly be purchasing many copies to give as baby shower gifts. In the end, I want to just thank these two amazing men for writing this phenomenal book that I so feel is needed so badly right now, and thank you for including nothing but truth within it including inclusion of all types of people and children and situations and cultures and races and ethnicities, etc. I wanted to share it with my son to talk about how much I love him and how he should love all of human kind I wanted to share it with my friend who is a 2nd grade teacher, so she could share it with all of her students I wanted to share it with my students, so we can discuss about the love and acceptance found in each spread and each word and I am so happy to be sharing it here with all of you so that it can be in every person’s life.Īlso, please read this amazing article by Matt de la Peña: “Why We Shouldn’t Shield Children from Darkness” from Time and Kate DiCamillo’s follow-up “Why Children’s Books Should Be a Little Bit Sad” where she answers a question de la Peña posed in his article as well as this Twitter thread from Sayantani DasGupta where she explores the need for joy in the darkeness! It truly embodies my parenting and teaching philosophy: that although kids are kids, they are also humans and future adults life should be about being real and about happiness. Love for all humans.Īnd as I read it over and over (after I was lucky enough to receive a copy), I couldn’t think of a kid I didn’t want to share it with. Love in the sense that every one needs to start thinking about–love between every person. Matt’s poem had been about love, but the book is about LOVE. I, probably rudely, found Matt right away, maybe interrupting a conversation he was having with someone else, to tell him what a beautiful book he and Loren had created. I thought that there was no way that the book could live up to what I expected. Then at NCTE 2017, I heard that Penguin had a finished copy. At the end of the poem, he let us know it was going to be a book, and I had very high expectations. When Matt read his beautiful words, I cried. ![]() ![]() Matt’s daughter is approximately Trent’s age and she’s his first just like Trent is, so I completely understood his feelings–the reality that we’ve brought children into this hard world. At ALAN in 2016, I believe, Matt was a speaker, and he shared how he’d written a poem about love to share with his daughter when the world didn’t seem so loving. Kellee’s Review : I sat here for a long time trying to figure out how to put into words how I feel about this book. With a lyrical text that’s soothing and inspiring, this tender tale is a needed comfort and a new classic that will resonate with readers of every age. ![]() In this heartfelt celebration of love, Matt de la Peña and illustrator Loren Long depict the many ways we experience this universal bond, which carries us from the day we are born throughout the years of our childhood and beyond. While you bounce in back with the bumps of the cityĪnd everything smells new, and it smells like life.” Summary: From Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña and bestselling illustrator Loren Long comes a story about the strongest bond there is and the diverse and powerful ways it connects us all.Īnd two wide-eyed figures standing near the foot of your bedĪ cab driver plays love softly on his radio
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