Laundry Day

by Maurie J Manning

In a picture book that blends realism and fantasy, a shoeshine boy is surprised when a piece of red silk falls from the sky. Trying to find its owner, he ventures up and down fire escapes, back and forth across clotheslines, and into the company of the colourfully diverse people who live in the tenement. Lively pages laid out in multiple panels, with a few words of text in dialogue balloons, capture the exhilarating action, and foreign language phrases are translated on the endpapers. There is a cheerful side to a neighbourhood packed with people of different origins - the opportunity to make friends across race lines, culture lines, and clotheslines!

• ISBN13: 9780547241968
• Publish Date: 17 April 2012
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 18 October 2013
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 40
• Language: English

Reviews

[cherryblossommj]

This has to be my favorite picture book for 2012 so far. It's a graphic novel, it's a wordless story, it's a picture book. Filled with different methods of telling the story I would not find fault with just sitting and staring at the pictures while discovering more and more new things. I absolutely positively love it!

*Thanks to HMH for providing a copy for review.*