My daughter was born in New York, and during the first year of her life we would go on a walk each and every day. We moved a few days before her first birthday, and it wasn’t long after that that I came across this book at the local library. It gave me such a fit of nostalgia for city life: the sights, the sounds, the people.
This vibrant, engaging book is a feast for the eyes. Maria Carluccio has illustrated other authors’ tales publishing with Barefoot Books, one of my favorite publishers, but in Sounds Around Town both her pictures and story take center stage as a mother and daughter stroll around their colorful city neighborhood, soaking up the world around them.
Carluccio’s collages are full of details familiar to any city-grown toddler, but you don’t need to have lived in one of New York’s five boroughs to truly appreciate this lovely book. And, as I can attest to, you don’t need to be a toddler to get a kick out of this story either.
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