I am mesmerized by this lovely picture book I found while Christmas shopping for my husband's niece. The Flower Man is a wordless picture book whose story unfolds in a series of complex street scenes. One man sharing a single flower sets off a chain reaction in a dark, lonely town and each page gets progressively more colorful as neighbors make connections and start to interact with each other. It's fun and surprisingly challenging to trace each character through the book, seeing how they change as a simple act of kindness ripples through the neighborhood. (A couple of my favorites are the war veteran and Jimmy Stewart in his wheelchair from Rear Window.)
Whimsically detailed characters and densely populated pages will keep you coming back to this book. Check out Mark Ludy's site for other titles. I'm adding The Farmer to my reading list.
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