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When We Get Home
Over the bridges, down the highways, through the streets. The ride from Granny's house is long, but what comforting things await this young girl when she gets home -- and what fun to anticipate them! Robin Ballard has created the perfect tuck-in tale, tailor-made for youngsters who are beginning to understand the geography of the world around them.
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First published May 27, 1999
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July 20, 2023
How fascinating! According to the Goodreads blurber: This book is "tailor-made for youngsters who are beginning to understand the geography of the world around them."
Reading those words, if I weren't such a grownup -- 75 years and counting -- I might have gasped out loud. You see, Goodreaders, I have never understood the geography of the world around me. Didn't when I was eight years old. Still don't.
Call it nature. Nurture. Blamey-blame. Or whatever.
My brain has never had a working compartment for geography.
BUT IS THIS BOOK REALLY ABOUT PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY?
Maybe not, for most readers. Maybe not even for the narrator of this picture book. She saw something I have never seen, how "The moon is following me all the way home."
What's this book about, really? After helping Granny move house, after the narrator and Mama drive back home, there's an understated adventure, just right for a picture book reader.
FIVE STARS. Even if I never learned a thing about how to understand the geography of the world around me. FWIW, I'm not convinced that the narrator learns a thing about that, either.
Instead she has her own thoughts and feelings, child-style. In fact, like this grownup now, rather than fitting geography together, she may be far more interested in learning about the geography and geometry and ineffable learning each of us can develop... about the human heart.
It's a beautiful book.
Reading those words, if I weren't such a grownup -- 75 years and counting -- I might have gasped out loud. You see, Goodreaders, I have never understood the geography of the world around me. Didn't when I was eight years old. Still don't.
Call it nature. Nurture. Blamey-blame. Or whatever.
My brain has never had a working compartment for geography.
BUT IS THIS BOOK REALLY ABOUT PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY?
Maybe not, for most readers. Maybe not even for the narrator of this picture book. She saw something I have never seen, how "The moon is following me all the way home."
What's this book about, really? After helping Granny move house, after the narrator and Mama drive back home, there's an understated adventure, just right for a picture book reader.
FIVE STARS. Even if I never learned a thing about how to understand the geography of the world around me. FWIW, I'm not convinced that the narrator learns a thing about that, either.
Instead she has her own thoughts and feelings, child-style. In fact, like this grownup now, rather than fitting geography together, she may be far more interested in learning about the geography and geometry and ineffable learning each of us can develop... about the human heart.
It's a beautiful book.
December 7, 2017
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