City Feet

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I love that the focus isn't just on what the footwear looks like, but what the people are doing as they go about their day in the city - bouncing, waiting for a bus, dancing, playing hopscotch, waiting in line, dragging as they get tired. By creating an account, you acknowledge that PBS may share your information with our member stations and our respective service providers, and that you have read and understand the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. As a parent who always reads children’s books before reading to my daughter, I was excited to see such inclusion and love in this book.

This shoe lover's paradise reveals that a city's feet are as varied as the people and animals who live there.I had the privilege to hear the author read this book out loud and the way she did it, with such lovely rhythm and cadence, made the words sing off the page.

I'm posting this wonderful little elephant I spotted on a friend's Christmas tree over the holidays. She has published two books on teaching through critical and creative thinking strategies and created the cover art for both. Aixa Perez-Prado has gifted us with a rhythmic story of a child's-eye view of feet on a city street. This book could be used to launch lessons for different art projects, or lessons about identity/diversity/community, as well as just a familiar fun quick read-aloud to enjoy again and again as a transition activity in a classroom when kids need a little wiggle break before they refocus. Because I had lots of ideas for the illustration of this story, my agent suggested that I make a dummy to send to the editor.Similarly, she loves illustrating by employing different techniques in a whimsical style that includes watercolor, acrylic, ink, and digital. The rhythm and rhyme makes the words roll off the tongue, and the colorful art gives kids plenty to find and smile at. female runner athlete going down stairs in urban city doing cardio sport workout run outside during summer. Its rhymes are lively and lighthearted and I love how Perez-Prado colorfully bolded the action words and some of the descriptions too. She started her strolling in Buenos Aires, then shuffled off to Buffalo, coasted across California, roamed around Costa Rica, moseyed through Morocco, and left footprints on the beaches of Brazil.

In addition, there some phrases in different languages which adds to the diversified feel of the book. These are the stories that brought me to writing for kidlit and I would love to see little Latinxers and other kids with intersectional identities finding themselves in my books. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Still, I had such a clear idea of how I wanted this book to look with only legs and feet, that I jumped at the chance. This is such a fun story with many different legs, different people, different languages and different stories.By offering a personalised, warm, and caring approach to all treatments, clients are offered the best possible service, and ensuring all their immediate, and longer term, needs are met. Segments focus on stories, reading and writing skills, math, science, social studies, the arts, and social-emotional learning.