Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.
WINNER Coretta Scott King Awards
WINNER Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
This story will leave children moved and satisfied. (School Library Journal, starred review)
Pinkney interprets the story with warm family scenes that glow. (Booklist)
Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.
Awards
WINNER Coretta Scott King Awards
WINNER Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
Praise
This story will leave children moved and satisfied. (School Library Journal, starred review)
Pinkney interprets the story with warm family scenes that glow. (Booklist)
