Ghost of Midnight
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What’s your favorite neighborhood book/song?
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.
Some comments to this post can be found on FPF’s FaceBook page (what, by the way, does FaceBook have to do with books?)
Posted in: Burlington, Civic Engagement, Community Building, Front Porch Forum, Neighborhood
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Malvina Reynolds’ “My Street” says it all…
The Garden on Green Street, by Meish Goldish ; illustrated by Judy Jarrett.