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Milo Imagines The World

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Matt De La Peña’s creative story with its wit and glorious, descriptive text is intricately realised through Christian Robinson’s rich pictures.

There is an another, imagined world, an absence between siblings and then the weight of the journey end.And it is the masterful way Matt and Christian have intertwined this emotional journey with the train ride that makes this picture book timeless. Christian Robinson received a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for his art in Last Stop on Market Street . But when the little boy gets off at the same stop and joins the same queue as him, Milo realises that you can’t judge by appearances and that we are all more alike than we are different: both boys are visiting their mothers in prison. Encouraging children to see past clothes and appearances and imagine different lives and circumstances. But this is building up to an ending that most families will find a little problematic to explain when not prepared.

Milo Imagines the World is a warm and richly satisfying story from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling picture book duo, about a little boy with a big imagination who learns that you can't know anyone just by looking at them.You guys were so fab and Dawn was such a lovely presence in the schools - I will absolutely be in touch next time I'm in your neck of the woods. It seems that ‘ these monthly Sunday train rides are never ending’ and leave Milo like ‘a shook-up soda‘. The illustrations are beautiful, Robinson does such a beautiful job drawing small but important aspects of Black people and that's one of the reasons why I love his work.

His fourth book, I Will Save You, was an ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Readers, an ALA-YALSA Quick Pick, a Junior Library Guild Selection and finalist for the 2011 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award. I could sense from the start that this was going to contain something unusual (silly me as a parent for NOT reading this myself before sharing it with a child! The book is fairly text heavy, but for me the real story is wordless: it is told through Milo’s drawings. I remember sitting on the crowded carriages, just like Milo, and imagining the lives of those around me. For families to whom this circumstance is pertinent, this is an amazing book to help a child accept and feel comfortable with what is happening within their family.It is a journey within a journey, illustrations within illustrations and layer upon layer of beautiful storytelling. A little girl ponders the everyday wonders she likes most – friends, pencils, staring out of windows – and the person who remains her favourite thing in the world. Milo Imagines the World on his never-ending Sunday train rides that leave him like ‘a shook up soda’.

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