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School Library Journal
Starred Review on February 1, 2015 | Preschool to Grades 4
K-Gr 3—An emotionally moving, visually delightful ode to the simple powers of observation and empathy. A young girl and her father walk home from the grocery store through busy city streets in this wordless picture book. Along the way, Dad is preoccupied—talking on his cell phone, moving with purpose, eyes forward—while his daughter, a bright spot of red in a mostly black-and-white world, gazes with curiosity at the sights around her. In graphic novel-style panels, readers see what she sees: colorful weeds and wildflowers springing up f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2015
A man and child stride companionably hand-in-hand on Smith’s energetically composed cover; yet, once inside this wordless book, each seems to wander in a separate, inner world: while the man is listening to his phone, the child is gathering the wildflowers that spring bravely from pavement cracks -- dandelions, buttercups, lupine. Once they leave the comfortably rundown city center and enter a park, the child begins to give these blossoms away -- a few h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2015
A man and child walk through a rundown city and through a park. The man listens to his phone; the child gathers wildflowers from pa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
