Eh. A little too clever for my taste.

(Read with little sister as part of the "1,001 Children's Books To Read")

What a fantastic book! I loved traveling all over the world with her. Fun way to read in circles, too.

Love!

http://www.pussreboots.pair.com/blog/2014/comments_11/madlenka.html

Wow, this is a visually dense book, packed with details and numerous styles of illustrations. It can only be a Peter Sis book! How lovely that even though Madlenka's world is seemingly small, her horizons expand so that a walk around the block becomes a walk around the world. The representations of different cultures and ethnicities were a bit tokenistic and it's a shame that Australia missed out (hello, we're down here, between Asia and Antarctica!) on the tour of continents, but it's a nice way to introduce children to urban diversity.

I really loved the illustrations in this one!