A young girl, who is visually impaired, finds much to celebrate as she explores the City she loves.
The story and illustrations were reviewed by a blind sensitivity reader..
The author\'s use of limited but evocative language can help children develop an aesthetic awareness and can serve as a perfect jumping-off point for children to use their senses to specifically describe, and appreciate, their own surroundings.
Though the main character is visually impaired, she travels around the City and enthusiastically enjoys its many offerings, and actively contributes to the lyrical bustle of City life by putting on a violin performance in the park.
Ashley Barron\'s vividly hued cut-paper collage illustrations add compelling visual interest to the text\'s descriptions.
The rhythmic, lyrical text makes for an appealing read-aloud.
Darren Lebeuf uses his keen observational skills as an award-winning photographer to poetically capture sensory experiences in this charming ode to City life.
And sometimes, maybe even some of the best times, it just listens.
Her City also speaks, as it dings and dongs, and rattles and roars.
It echoes and trills, and is both smelly and sweet.
It pitters and patters, and drips and drains.
Her city, she says, rushes and stops, and waits and goes.
As they do, the girl describes what she senses in delightfully precise, poetic detail.
A young girl and her father spend a day in the city, her city, traveling to the places they go together: the playground, the community garden, the market, an outdoor concert.
A young girl, who is visually impaired, finds much to celebrate as she explores the City she loves
