The Quiet Way Home by Bonny Becker Kenn Kaufman Sweet little hand-embroidered face

Sweet little hand-embroidered face

which was short-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal

- OPRAH LOVES THIS LINE: The Letters to My

drawings of common and interesting behaviors

like characters in an old fairy tale

The Quiet Way Home by Bonny Becker Kenn Kaufman Sweet little hand-embroidered faceA little girl and her grandfather walk along the quieter paths which take them past a chopping hoe, the shirr of grasshoppers, and the shushing of a water sprinkler. When Grandfather fetches a small girl from school, they take the quiet way home. They hear not the loud clanging and rumbling noises, but the "dart and flee" of the honeybee; not the hurry up honks of the busy road, but "the rustle scuffle scrape a caper Tumbling paper" in the alley; not