Keeping the City Going - Hardcover

Caldecott Award winner Brian Floca gives a heartfelt thank you to the essential workers who keep their cities going during COVID-19 quarantine in this tenderly illustrated picture book.

We are here at home now, watching the world through our windows. Outside we see the city we know, but not as we’ve seen it before. The once hustling and bustling streets are empty. Well, almost empty. Around the city there are still people, some, out and about. These are the people keeping us safe. Keeping us healthy. Keeping mail and food delivered. Keeping grocery stores stocked. Keeping the whole city going. Brian Floca speaks for us all in this stirring homage to all the essential workers who keep the essentials operating so the rest of us can do part by sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Details:

• By: Brian Floca
• Illustrated by: Brian Floca
• Publisher:‎ Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
• Publication date:‎ April 27, 2021
• Language: English
• Print length‏:‎ 40 pages
• Item Weight‏:‎ 15.2 ounces
• Reading age‏:‎ 4 - 8 years
• Dimensions:‎ 9 x 0.4 x 10 inches
• Grade level:‎ Preschool - 3

Street-hero salute – Keeping the City Going by Brian Floca shows how grocery-deliverers, nurses, drivers, trash-collectors and more kept the city alive even when streets went quiet.

Artful wink of hope – With detailed water-colour drawings of buses, trucks, fire-engines and masked workers, each page turns into a little tribute — making busy city life feel gentle, real and special.

Heart-warming bedtime read – Written for kids aged 4–8, the book offers comfort and gratitude.

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