BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
There is a large wall in the neighborhood - as big as a city block. Life goes on around it, but it stays the same. One day, a boy decides to turn the wall into a mural - something that tells everyone about who they are and what is special to them. But he can't do it alone!
I appreciate the author and illustrator's notes at the end - it helps to put the book in perspective. The way everyone avoided the wall at the beginning, I wondered what the wall had to do with all the glimpses of community life - they bought their ice cream and went far from the wall to eat it; they built their snowmen on other sidewalks; the wall can't dance? There are several great picture books about a community gathering together to improve by making art, this one just seemed too ordinary.
Lisa Librarian
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