Rush Hour - Hardcover

Loomis, Christine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039569129X ISBN 13: 9780395691298

Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers, 1996

Synopsis

This energetic book introduces numerous modes of transportation and captures a diverse array of people participating in the rhythm of the city workday, then reuniting with their families in the evening to eat dinner and discuss the day.

About this title

About the Author:

Christine Loomis works as an editor, writer, and children’s book reviewer. She’s written several picture books and lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband and three children.

From Publishers Weekly:

This picture book follows the rhythms of a work day in New York City, from the first stirrings of the morning to the moment when parents and children are joyfully reunited in the evening. The main focus, of course, is the bustle of rush hour: the whirl of people crowding into subway cars, cars cascading over bridges and crowds swelling out of Grand Central resembles a three-ring circus. Loomis's (The Hippo Hop) concise, rhyming text evokes a cheerful diversity of people?"Out their doors/ Go moms and dads,/ Lugging tools/ Or books and pads"?and the chaotic sounds and sights of rush hour, "Rumbling,/ Roaring,/ Jiggling,/ Jumping,/ Left turn,/ Right turn,/ Backing,/ Bumping." Takabayashi's (Baby's Things) engaging watercolors are a kaleidoscope of color, pattern and activity. Presented as a multiplicity of panels, the illustrations offer seemingly inexhaustible, enjoyable details: one patchwork of pictures depicts people decorating cakes, delivering mail, teaching aerobics and more, their simple faces showing a remarkable range of expression. Rather than focusing on one individual or family, this lovely book opens young readers up to a wide, complex, but still reassuring world. It may well instill a love of the kinetic vibrancy of urban life. Ages 3-8.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 039569129X
• ISBN 13: 9780395691298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Takabayashi Mari