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| ISBN: 9780823455706 Hardcover $18.99 Neal Porter Books Holiday House Publishing |
My thoughts: Imagine an elementary age child fully aware of the world around him down to the most minute detail mapping out that world so someone can learn about it. A map of the house that details that bathroom faucet that trickles and the pipe that sounds like a ghost. Details of the street and the houses and who lives in them. A set of details about the neighbor whose yard is called "The Farm" and sketched out are the details of that neighbors "farm yard."
And then imagine the reason behind this treasure of detail. The artist or author of these maps is leaving this world so fully detailed in maps and left the guide for you to see and discover his beloved world because his family is moving away.
A sweet book and lots of details for the interested reader to discover.
About the book: Before moving away, a young cartographer leaves some guidance behind about his old home for the child about to make it their new one.
What if you moved to a new place and found a hand-drawn local guidebook, left there just for you? In A Book of Maps for You, an artistic young person gives just such a gift. He’s crafted and annotated maps of his neighborhood, school, and house; no slide, orange tree, or chicken coop left uncharted.
He points out the best Halloween decorations, school lunches, and local stops for baked goods, books, or art supplies. He shows the best place to put your bed upstairs, right under the skylight. Just as his family’s moving truck pulls away, another pulls up, and sure enough, his book finds its way into the next child’s hands.
During a big move, a child can feel a lot of pressure to open their heart to the place they’re headed. But what about the roads they’ve been down hundreds of times? The faces they’ve grown up seeing? The house where they know every bang of the pipes and drip of the faucet? That history deserves care, too.
A Book of Maps for You honors the homes we leave behind and the ones we haven’t met yet, reminding us that they may just be two sides of the same coin. Lourdes Heuer’s achingly subtle text speaks volumes in all it pays attention to, and all it doesn’t have to say. Maxwell Eaton III’s signature detail-rich illustrations perfectly suggest the work of a talented child, and promise plenty of surprises to drink in and explore on each page.
A Book of Maps for You honors the homes we leave behind and the ones we haven’t met yet, reminding us that they may just be two sides of the same coin. Lourdes Heuer’s achingly subtle text speaks volumes in all it pays attention to, and all it doesn’t have to say. Maxwell Eaton III’s signature detail-rich illustrations perfectly suggest the work of a talented child, and promise plenty of surprises to drink in and explore on each page.
Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy to facilitate a review. Opinions are mine, alone and are freely given.
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