What’s your favorite book or song or other creation that celebrates neighborhood life? Hard to beat Sesame Street of yore.
Burlington’s Fletcher Free Library just got The Big Orange Splot, a children’s book by Daniel Manus Pinkwater (1977, Scholastic Inc.). Gotta love a good kid book about neighbors, difference, and taking initiative. Groovy illustrations too. My ten-year-old loved it… we’ll see what his siblings think of it next.
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Malvina Reynolds’ “My Street” says it all…
The Garden on Green Street, by Meish Goldish ; illustrated by Judy Jarrett.