Parent Reviews
Sort by:
Katherine R.
Parent of 10, 14, 18+, 18+, 18+ and 5-year-old
July 6, 2024
Report this review
MommaDragon
Parent
October 6, 2021
Lovely Cultural Insight
This is a wonderful book that lets you peek in to inner city culture.
I am so surprised about the reviews upset of the language because it's absolutely spot on for cultural reference of inner city black culture- which is in large part why we read/should be reading culturally diverse books!
That aside it's a wonderful story of a normal Sunday out in which a grandmother shows her grandson there is so much more to the world than what you can buy with money if you would just open your eyes to it and no matter what you haven't got you can still give of yourself and make the world a better place.
We love this storybook and it's illustrations.
Report this review
brysong
Parent
October 21, 2020
My 2nd grader's "mentor text" at school for slice of life story
Powerful, simple, from the point of view of a common grandson/grandmother family, with such a strong role model in the grandmother in resiliency. Validates poorer children as lives worth writing about, opens minds of richer children.
Report this review
L3mur
Parent
February 20, 2019
Beautiful book and message
A beautifully told and illustrated book about city life, diversity and learning to see the beauty and good in the world around you.
Report this review
Sj0456
Adult
September 24, 2016
Gentle and kind book
A young boy leaves church with his grandmother and takes a crosstown ride where he learns to see beauty in unexpected places. This is a wonderful book that parents from multiple backgrounds can appreciate. Let me give some examples. The kid is a church with his Nana and they are riding to help out at a soup kitchen. Its not in your face religiosity, these are just two people quietly serving Christ. They face up to the fact that some families have cars and iPods and bikes...and some don't, with grace and class. Nana talks like a real person, not an English teacher: idiomatic English from the South.
The illustrations are bright, vibrant and engaging and provide lots for young ones to look at. All in all an excellent book.
Report this review
lindam8
Parent
March 13, 2016
Review of last stop on market street
It is a nice book but there are double negatives in the book. There are also other uses of improper English. I know I am not perfect at English, but i feel the books our children read should be.
Report this review
What to Read Next
Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners.
See how we rate