We revisit the drama and resolution of it multiple times a day. Our daughter, for instance, is very concerned about a middle-aged man who loses his key and wallet while out jogging, and so happy that a little girl returns them to him a few pages on. It’s fascinating for little ones to spot all the small details – a bee high up in a tree in the spring, a tiny cement truck in the background – and track the simple plot lines. One girl keeps losing her hat – a child pulls it off on the bus, the mom returns it to her, it falls off in another season while she’s on her scooter, and she keeps showing up in the hat shop on one the pages, buying a new weird hat. But here’s the key thing: the characters each have their own little plot going. The next is of the same street a little further on with new landscape, a garage, and so on. The first spread is of a big house and garden and the street outside in the winter: little Christmas trees, a few decorations, a bus coming by, people doing their thing. It’s oversized and there are no words, just the narrative of the scenes, the people and the seasons. Not a complicated concept but so, so well done. It takes the same set of scenes and people through a year of seasons. If you have a small child, you need this book.
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