Sidewalk Flowers

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Call Number: Kids Book / Picture Books / General / Lawson, JonArno
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Malletts Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / General / Lawson, JonArno	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / General / Lawson, JonArno	4-week checkout	Due 05-05-2024

A little girl collects wildflowers while on a walk with her distracted father. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. This wordless picture book, conceived by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and beautifully brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, is an ode to the importance of small things, small people and small gestures.

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sweet! submitted by smgop on July 14, 2016, 7:42pm What a sweet little book.

Lovely submitted by KOH on August 27, 2017, 8:57pm The illustrations are just lovely and the story is so sweet.

A beautiful, loving story submitted by janelizlynch on August 10, 2020, 2:49pm This story is especially good for kids. It has no pictures. But today, I am going to review it.

Great book for kids.

This story is about a girl with a dad. They go around town and the girl, everywhere they go, finds beautiful flowers--purple, yellow, green. They go in shops, they wait for the bus. It's especially good because the girl tucks them in places. When she hugs her mom, she tucks one in her hair. She finds beautiful flowers and then shares them with the world. This is a story about love, family, and being a good neighbor.

Almost There, Not Quite submitted by Meginator on August 21, 2021, 11:18am This wordless picture book relies on the use of color against greyscale illustrations to tell its story, which is a clever approach that makes for some very dynamic individual scenes. Unfortunately, the appearance of color doesn’t seem to have a consistent sense of cause and effect to it, which muddles the book’s message a bit and robs it of some of its potential emotional power. This is still worth a glance, but I wish the storyline was a little tighter.

Illustrations submitted by sandri on July 22, 2022, 5:05pm Great illustrations