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  • My Steps

My Steps

Author
Sally Derby
Illustrator
Adjoa J Burrowes
Publication Date
June 18, 2005
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
My Steps
Only 1 copies currently available
Description

My steps was named a Best Book of 1996 by Child Magazine and a "Choice" of the Cooperative Children's Book Center

Accompanied by beautiful papercut watercolors by Adjoa Burrowes, Sally Derby's story is a positive look at childhood in the city. Whether their young narrator is shoveling snow in the deep of winteror hiding under a blanket with her friend to escape the hot midday sun of summer, her steps provide a venue for fun, games, imagination, and friendship. Best of all, as every child knows, whenever you come back from being Away, setting foot on the front steps means you're finally Home.

Publication date
June 18, 2005
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781880000847
Lexile Measure
900
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
BISAC categories
JUV029000 - Juvenile Fiction | Nature & the Natural World | General
JUV023000 - Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles | City & Town Life
Library of Congress categories
African Americans
Seasons
Play

School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 1--A gentle story about a child's imaginative play. The front steps of a city building make a wonderful year-round playground for an African-American girl and her friends. The steps are good for hopping up and down, watching people and traffic pass by, coloring with friends, playing school, or pretending to be in a cave with a blanket draped over the stoop. Best of all, setting foot on the front steps after you've been away means you're home again. Bright cut-paper collages with watercolors show cars (that look like miniatures) and animals somewhat distorted in relation to people, but have a fresh, childlike quality. An additional slice-of-urban-life picture book.--Sally R. Dow, Ossining Public Library, NY
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