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In her lyrical prose and expressive pictures, Bond captures the mixture of apprehension and curiosity that children feel upon arrival at their new home, but she also celebrates the joy of discovering a new neighborhood and meeting that first new friend on the block. Full color.
Author Notes
Rebecca Bond was born in 1972 and raised in Peacham, Vermont. She received a degree in visual arts from Brown University in 1995. Her first picture book, Just Like a Baby, was published in 1999. She went on to write and illustrate nine more books including Bravo, Maurice!, The Great Doughnut Parade, Escape from Baxters' Barn, Out of the Woods: A True Story of an Unforgettable Event, and Belly of an Ox: The Unexpected Photographic Adventures of Richard and Cherry Kearton. She was also a senior designer at HMH Books for Young Readers. She worked there from 2008 and until her death. She died after a brief illness on August 2, 2017 at the age of 45.
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Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 1-3-Charming illustrations that perfectly capture the life and spirit of a big city (inspired by the author's Brooklyn neighborhood) are paired with an awkward text in this story about a boy moving to a new house. The first rhythmic line-"At 44 MacDougal Street when Marcus Moore moved in-" implies a rhyming story with a finger-snapping beat, but the next line, "`I'm here!' said Marcus Moore, but there was no one there" fails to live up to the promise. Despite this flaw, many children will identify with the loneliness of moving to a new place and the joy of making a new friend (who, in this case, happens to be a girl). The softly colored acrylic illustrations are intriguing and detailed enough for children to follow the story on their own, with or without the text.-Sue Morgan, Tom Kitayama Elementary School, Union City, CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
"At 44 MacDougal Street when Marcus Moore moved in, `I'm here!' said Marcus Moore, but there was no one there." And so it goes for the lonely new boy in the neighborhood, until "like a sunny sidewalk dancer, a girl went skipping by." Sporting wiry, airborne braids ? la Pippi Longstocking, the girl parades back and forth, then disappears when it starts to rain ("And there was only grim and gray, and there was only him"). When the girl finally introduces herself ("And at once he felt all rosy. Like that, his street had changed"), the two play the rest of the day away. Bond's (Just Like a Baby) pliant prose flows zestily and also lyrically ("And in the early evening, when the day was blue and dusty,/ with smells of dinners cooking, with lightly layered dark"). Her piquant illustrations capture the feelings of both children, Marcus longingly watching the girl as she skips, bicycles, "stomp[s] and tromp[s] and swagger[s]" past him, checking occasionally to ensure she's grabbed his attention. The cheerful palette of acrylics and askew perspectives help conjure a warm urban setting. As the children's friendship solidifies, the MacDougal Street background grows more sociable, too. More and more people travel its sidewalks, and the formerly blank windows of the houses reveal cozy domestic scenes within. Kids facing a move will be heartened-and rooted kids may feel a twinge or two of wanderlust. Ages 3-6. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved