Illustrator: Christian Robinson
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Awards: Newbery Medal, Caldecott Medal
Grade: PK-2
CJ and his grandma are waiting outside in the rain for the bus to come pick them up after church. CJ would ask different questions as they waited for the bus like, why is it raining and why they did not have a car? On the bus, he asked his grandma why they were going to a place after church? He also asked why the man on the bus was blind. On the bus, he heard a musician play music and enjoyed seeing his surroundings. When they got off the bus, they were in a ghetto neighborhood where the walls had graffiti on them but yet the grandma saw beauty in them. They walked to a soup kitchen where they helped people out and CJ enjoyed it.
I would use this in my classroom to have in my library because of the quality of the work. I would read this to children between the grades of PK and second grade. I would not use this for a particular unit but would use it to just read to students for fun.
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