Sidewalk flowers
A little girl collects wildflowers while walking through town with her father. Each flower is then given as a gift by the thoughtful little girl.
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- ISBN: 1554984319
- ISBN: 9781554984312
- Physical Description 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations
- Publisher Toronto ; Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2015.
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Summary
Sidewalk Flowers
Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustrated Book A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year In this wordless picture book, a little girl collects wildflowers while her distracted father pays her little attention. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. "Written" by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers is an ode to the importance of small things, small people and small gestures. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.