On My Block: Stories and Paintings by Fifteen Artists

On My Block: Stories and Paintings by Fifteen Artists
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade

Fifteen fine artists portray, in words and pictures, the places and spaces most special to them.

Is there a corner of your block that you love to explore? A room in your house that holds a special memory? A piece of your home country that you particularly miss? A faraway place you've only heard about from an elder family member that excites your imagination?

Children's Book Press asked fifteen gifted fine artists to portray, in words and pictures, the places and spaces most special to them, and On My Block is the remarkable result. The places these visual artists have chosen to represent are moving, funny, and unexpected. Readers will soar from the rooftops of South Brooklyn to the adobe-colored desert of Taos Pueblo, from a basement in San Francisco's Japantown to a Mississippi Gulf Coast porch. A garden in Mexico overflows with blossoms while another in Tehran hums with the purring of thirty-two cats, and an empty lot in a bustling Havana neighborhood is transformed into a country farm.

On My Block is a celebration of community, an homage to neighborhoods across the world, and an exploration of past and present. The fifteen gorgeous paintings and stories ask you to ponder the places that comprise your world. What's on your block, down your street, in another country, that makes up who you are?

Contributors:

  • Kim Cogan
  • Maya Christina Gonzalez
  • Yasmin Hernandez
  • Felicia Hoshina
  • Sara Kahn
  • Conan Low
  • Joseph Pearson
  • Elaine Pedlar
  • Ann Phong
  • José Ramírez
  • Tonel
  • Jonathan Warm Day
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Review quotes

This is a loving, wonderfully illustrated homage to the neighborhood of place, family, heart and mind. — Kirkus Reviews

Kids may be inspired to look at their own surroundings in a new light. — Publisher's Weekly

Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780892392407
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Children's Book Press (CA)
Publication date
April 01, 2013
Series
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BISAC categories
JNF007050 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural Heritage
JNF006050 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Art | Painting
JNF019000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Family | General
Library of Congress categories
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