Sidewalk Flowers
Sidewalk Flowers is a wordless picture book about a child who gathers wildflowers from the sidewalk and shares them with the world around her. Its quiet page turns bring observation and generosity to life.
Work Information
A quiet picture book about noticing small things and giving them away.
By turning attention to flowers and overlooked details in the city, the book builds a child's awareness and kindness step by step. Its wordless structure is what makes the emotional movement so effective.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Groundwood Books
- Published
- 2015-03-17
- Pages
- 32 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 22.23 x 0.94 x 22.23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781554984312
- ISBN-10
- 1554984319
- Price
- 3602 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Children's Books/Growing Up & Facts of Life/Family Life/Parents
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.
JonArno Lawson is a three-time winner of the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Children’s Poetry, and the author of numerous books for children and adults, including Enjoy It While It Hurts, Down in the Bottom of the Bottom of the Box, and Think Again. He lives in Toronto with his wife and three children. Sydney Smith was born in rural Nova Scotia, Canada, and has been drawing since an early age. Since graduating from NSCAD University, he has illustrated multiple children’s books and he has received awards for his illustrations, including the Lillian Shepard Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration. He now lives in Toronto and works in a shared studio space in Chinatown where he eats too many bahn mi sandwiches and goes to the library or Art Gallery of Ontario on his breaks. JonArno Lawson is a three-time winner of the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Children's Poetry, and the author of numerous books for children and adults, including Enjoy It While It Hurts, Down in the Bottom of the Bottom of the Box, and Think Again. He lives in Toronto with his wife and three children. Sydney Smith was born in rural Nova Scotia, Canada, and has been drawing since an early age. Since graduating from NSCAD University, he has illustrated multiple children's books and he has received awards for his illustrations, including the Lillian Shepard Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration. He now lives in Toronto and works in a shared studio space in Chinatown where he eats too many bahn mi sandwiches and goes to the library or Art Gallery of Ontario on his breaks.
Reviews
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日本から注文
大体、１ヶ月半ぐらいで届きました。 台詞一つも無く、絵だけで淡々と進んでいきます。 綺麗で文句無しです。嬉しい。 ありがとうございました。
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Very nice picture book（evaluation by Japanese）
There is no sentence at all. imagination. Begin She Loves roadside flowers. Next She Offer love flowers to people. Last She Offer love flowers to Herself. She taught me something very important. Very important picture book.
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Trying to be too cute.
Drawing is not very good. There is nothing subtle in the way the daughter and her father are drawn. Too much of caricatures. Also in every page, only colored image is the daughter's read coat. In the end, it gets tiresome.
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Sweet story with lovely illustrations
This is a lovely book. People who know downtown Toronto will recognize some of the neighborhoods shown in the illustrations. My 2 year old daughter really enjoys this book and I enjoy telling her the story in my own words each time.
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muy bonito
Un libro muy lindo cuando se explica, es difícil explicar que la niña arranque las flores pero el mensaje final de hacer actos por los demás es muy bonito, para niños de 2 1/2 hasta 5 años funciona muy bien
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Beautiful and full of meaning
This book is quiet in the best way possible! The illustrations move from black and white to colorful, expressing the inner world and mood of the main character. There are subtle internal jokes, such as the only person on the crosswalk illustrated with color (not Black and White), was a woman reading a book. Lovely and beautiful. My 3-year old son loves it, and each page is a wonderful conversation started.
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Splendide illustrazioni
Splendide illustrazioni per una storia senza parole, da inventare con i propri bambini, seguendo la piccola della copertina nel suo viaggio e nella sua raccolta di fiori attraverso la città.
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Blumen schön!!
Für Kinder und Erwachsene einfach schön