Next to Me
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- USD 8.99
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- USD 8.99
Descripción editorial
This joyful and soothing read-aloud, about noticing all the wonderful things around you, is a bedtime gem that's illustrated in gorgeous cut-paper collages by husband-and-wife team Sophia Haas and New York Times Best Illustrated winner Daniel Salmieri.
A walk home from school is an opportunity to observe all the happy details along the way: puffy clouds next to an airplane, the twisty slide next to swinging swings, a backhoe next to a big hole. When you really take the time to observe, there are so many interesting things to see in every moment of every day. What's next to you?
From school to home, afternoon to bedtime, this cheerful book invites children to look closely and with delight at the objects all around them.
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In an opening collage made of hand-painted paper shapes, a child wearing a backpack waves to an adult leading a scooter and two dogs: "After my school day is done/ I see PEPPER/ Next to PEANUT/ Next to MAMA!" As the four next head through a city neighborhood, obser-vational text considers the changing landscape—on one page, the child spots "LINES on the street/ Next to the WALKING PERSON/ Let's go!" The lines prove to be a crosswalk, and the walking person... a pedestrian? No, the image on the lit-up walk signal across the road. Succeeding spreads by married team Salmieri (Before, Now) and Haas, making her picture book debut, invite readers to look closely at the artwork, checking what they see against the narrator's stated perceptions. On one page, a salon, deli, and laundromat are introduced via pictorial signs that exhibit "BIG SCISSORS/ Next to SANDWICHES/ Next to SPINNY CLOTHES." It's an absorbing look at how a child interprets their surroundings, which become more personal as the protagonist eats dinner and heads to bed. Characters are portrayed with various skin tones. Ages 3–5.
