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Sidewalk Flowers: 11/03/24
Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith (Illustrator) (2015) is a Canadian poet who also collaborates with illustrators on wordless picture books. This particular one follows a child and their father as they walk through a quiet city towards home. Like Loren Long's Yellow School Bus, the majority of the book is rendered in black and white. Color is reserved for the flowers the child picks and the flowers they then give away on their walk. Sometimes interesting things, presumably interesting to the child, are rendered in color. Besides the flowers, the only other burst of color is the child's red hoodie. Following the hoodie makes for a visual continuity throughout the varying landscapes: walk-ups, bus stations, the park, etc. This picture book sits on the Road Narrative Spectrum. Father and child are a family of travelers (33). Their destination is home (66) as represented by the fully colored spreads at the end of the book. Their route there is the Blue Highway as represented by the sidewalks along the streets that they follow. Five stars Comments (0)
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