La strada verso casa

A young rabbit is being carried home in the arms of his mother. As darkness falls a deer is shutting up his bookshop and a sheep is closing his restaurant. As they walk home the rabbit child observes what is happening inside the lit up windows and wonders what the occupants are doing. This is a love Leggi tutto

RATING: 5 STARS 2017; Kids Can Press/Hachette Book Group (Review Not on Blog) One night a little Bunny is being carried home by his mother and imagines what people around him are doing. He knows one thing though, everyone goes home to sleep. This is a great book for bedtime...with or without the kiddie Leggi tutto

This is a gentle story of a mother carrying her young bunny home after dark. What the young one sees, hears and senses during this night time walk. There are lights into people's homes or shops, hints at others' experiences. Those lozenges of light bring warmth to the street. And when the little one Leggi tutto

Akiko Miyakoshi’s The Way Home in the Night portrays a little bunny being taken home by her mother late at night, when the city becomes very different. But rather than being frightening, it’s a speculative city where the bunny wonders about the neighborhood residents she glimpses through their lit w Leggi tutto

This is my other favorite of 2017's New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books. A little bunny is carried home in the dark through city streets. From the safe vantage point of their mother's arms they catch Edward Hopperesque glimpses of the lives of the other residents of their street. These

Beautiful story about a mother walking home with her child as evening falls...very touching.

Japanese author/illustrator Akiko Miyakoshi, whose picture-book The Tea Party in the Woods was translated into English 2015, produces another breathtakingly beautiful work here. A young bunny, being carried through the nighttime streets by her mother, observes brief moments in the lives of other