Laundry Day Author: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 colorfully — diverse people who live in the tenement. Lively pages laid out in multiple panel... more »s, with
a few words of text in dialogue balloons, capture the exhilarating action, and foreignlanguage
phrases are translated on the endpapers. There is a cheerful side to a neighborhood
packed with people of different origins?the opportunity to make friends
across race lines, culture lines, and clotheslines!« less