Little Boy
with audio recording
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5.0 • 4 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
In this tender eBook with audio, the simple playthings, the everyday moments, picking up that hundredth rock—all of these are brimming with possibility, if you slow down and let the future begin with the small moments of today. Because everything depends on letting a little boy . . . be a little boy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Watching his tousled-haired son navigate a typical day, a father wistfully reflects on boyhood's pleasures especially the endless possibilities presented by a big cardboard box. McGhee (previously paired with Reynolds for Someday) uses William Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow" as a jumping-off point for the hand-lettered text: "Little boy, so much depends on / your starship pajamas,/ that story about llamas,/ the way you don't worry,/ the way you won't hurry,/ and your big cardboard box." Keeping props to a minimum in his watercolor-and-ink vignettes, Reynolds portrays the young hero at full kid throttle. Confident, independent and inexhaustible, the boy turns the cardboard box into a pirate ship, a stepladder, a spaceman's costume and a crash pad. In short, he's the very definition of Everyboy if the computer or TV set had never been invented. Those absences suggest that the book's appeal is a nostalgic one and that the most appreciative audience may be former boys like Dad himself. All ages.
