Patchwork
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
From a Newbery Medal-winning author and a New York Times bestselling illustrator comes a deeply moving ode to the complexity and uniqueness of every child.
In profound, uplifting verse and sumptuous artwork, beloved creators Matt de la Peña and Corinna Luyken explore the endless possibilities each child contains: A young dancer may grow into a computer coder; a basketball player might become a poet; a class clown may one day serve as an inspiring teacher; and today’s quiet empath might be tomorrow’s great leader. Here's a profound and uplifting new classic with an empowering message for readers of all ages: Your story is still being written.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a series of poetic vignettes, the creators of this contemplative picture book introduce an array of children whose early traits or talents seem to suggest a determined life path. One, portrayed with brown skin, seems "put on this earth to dance./ We know, we know"; another, who reads as white, is "the kid perpetually in time-out./ We sigh, we sigh." But the young dancer's innate rhythm leads to a career as a coder who can "change the way the world moves," while the class cut-up becomes a life-changing teacher when interacting with "a restless kid like you." Using hatch marks and quiltlike squares of color, Luyken (Something Good) celebrates the capacity to explore and change: introductory images employ a limited palette, giving way to multihued views of additional depth and dimensionality as the children, portrayed with varying skin tones, mature and transform. In expansive lines, de la Peña (Milo Imagines the World) counters messages of narrowing one's sights, conveying the heartening idea that lives of meaning emerge, instead, from "mismatched scraps accumulated over time/ and stitched together/ into a kind of patchwork." Ages 4–8. Agent (for de la Peña and Luyken): Steven Malk, Writers House.
