Last Stop On Market Street
Author: Matt de la Pena
Illustrator: Christian Robinson
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Grade level: K-2
Awards: Newberry Medal, Caldecott Honor
A little boy named CJ walks out of the church and feels the rain on his face. He ducked underneath his Nana's umbrella and asked why they had to wait for the bus when it was this wet. From the bus stop he watched his friends going away in cars and asked his nana why they didn't have a car. Nana said they didn't need a car they had a bus that breathed fire. The bus driver did a magic trick when CJ entered. They sat at the front of the bus and greeted everyone with a big smile. CJ seems to want everything that everyone else has. Nana told CJ to close his eyes and realize that he had everything live. He spotted the familiar faces and was grateful they came to the soup kitchen.
This book is a wonderful book to teach about humility. It teaches kids about being grateful for what they have. It also give perspective on what it would be like to be a child from a lower class family.
The illustrations are beautiful and fill up the whole page with lots of colors. They are cut and pated on like collages style. It is simple but very detailed. It portrays the characters well to tell us that they are poor and in the end of the book it is apparent that they are going to a soup kitchen to get their food.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Grade level: K-2
Awards: Newberry Medal, Caldecott Honor
A little boy named CJ walks out of the church and feels the rain on his face. He ducked underneath his Nana's umbrella and asked why they had to wait for the bus when it was this wet. From the bus stop he watched his friends going away in cars and asked his nana why they didn't have a car. Nana said they didn't need a car they had a bus that breathed fire. The bus driver did a magic trick when CJ entered. They sat at the front of the bus and greeted everyone with a big smile. CJ seems to want everything that everyone else has. Nana told CJ to close his eyes and realize that he had everything live. He spotted the familiar faces and was grateful they came to the soup kitchen.
This book is a wonderful book to teach about humility. It teaches kids about being grateful for what they have. It also give perspective on what it would be like to be a child from a lower class family.
The illustrations are beautiful and fill up the whole page with lots of colors. They are cut and pated on like collages style. It is simple but very detailed. It portrays the characters well to tell us that they are poor and in the end of the book it is apparent that they are going to a soup kitchen to get their food.
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