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Description
For fans of Home Is Where the Birds Sing and Me & Mama, this tenderhearted picture book follows a little girl's journey to make her new house a home, one mango at a time.
Mia and her mama used to live in an apartment with just a few windows that was part of a big building with lots of other people. Now, they've moved to a house that has eleven windows, a yard, and a mango tree. Mia misses her old home, but the special mango tree captures her curiosity and sets her on a sweet voyage of discovery. As more and more mangos appear on the tree, bringing the neighborhood together, Mia sees how treasuring and sharing the good that comes into your life can lead to new connections and community.
Publication date
May 09, 2023
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781534496033
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship JUV039070 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Homelessness & Poverty JUV013090 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Alternative Family
Library of Congress categories
Picture books Neighborliness Trees Sharing Mango
Publishers Weekly
After moving from an apartment, narrator Mia's new home is "A house! Five rooms. Eleven windows. And a whole lot of promise," Sauer writes. Because "a house has been Mama's dream for so long," living there has grown into Mia's dream too. And since it comes with a yard and a mango tree, the child anticipates picking that first ripe fruit--an act that results in sharing the mangos with neighbors, portrayed with various abilities and skin tones. In Martin's bright-hued illustrations, planes of tropical colors mimic textured gouache as light-brown-skinned Mia wears a Band-Aid on their chin, and darker-skinned Mama sports red spectacles. The child's delight at the new home--and creative way of making sure "all kinds of special" distinguish the family's new life there--is the theme of this neighborly picture book about a first house and how its bounty creates a new community. Age 4-8. (May)
Copyright 2023 Publishers Weekly, LLC Used with permission.
Tammi Sauer is the author of Chicken Dance, Bawk and Roll, Cowboy Camp, and Your Alien, which has earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus (all Sterling). She is an active blogger (tammisauer.com) and highly involved in the children's writer community, in addition to being a great promoter of her own books. Tammi has worked as a teacher and library media specialist and now lives in OK with her husband and their two children. Her local indie bookstore, Best of Books, in Edmond, OK, has named July 9th Tammi Sauer Day. Follow her on Twitter at @SauerTammi. Vanessa Brantley-Newton is a self-taught illustrator whose passion for children's books began when she came across Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats as a child in the 1960s. Snowy Day marked one of the first representations of black children in picture books, and seeing a character that looked like her and lived in a neighborhood like her own was a turning point in Vanessa's life. Vanessa hopes to inspire young readers as Keats did for her and a generation of children. She is the author and illustrator of Let Freedom Sing and Don't Let Auntie Mabel Bless the Table (both Blue Apple Books), and has illustrated numerous children's books including One Love and Every Little Thing (both Chronicle), words by Bob & Cedella Marley, and Presenting Tallulah (Aladdin), written by Tori Spelling. Vanessa lives in Charlotte, NC, with her husband of 20 years, their daughter, and a very rambunctious cat named Stripes.
