Laundry Day: A shoeshine boy in early 20th century NYC goes on an adventure to find the owner of a lost red scarf. He encounters immigrants from all over the world as he hops from fire escape to clothesline. The illustrations are engaging and have few visual gags. The foreign phrases gives this book an extra boost, and could probably be used as a title for the Social Studies Common Core Standard. But I am confused as to what category this book falls into. Is it a picture book or is it a graphic novel? It has panels like a comic but I'm not sure. ( )

A picture book with a graphic novel feel. . . Great for read aloud- short, but the illustrations are so wonderful! Check out the author's website:
http://www.mauriejmanning.com ( )

48 months - beautifully illustrated with comic book like elements. Not really our kind of read aloud but we can appreciate the artistry. ( )

The adventurous lengths a young boy goes to to return a found strip of red cloth in a New York City tenement neighborhood full of immigrants. Who knew cats like matzoh ball soup? ( )

A simple picture book, with a simple lesson of kindness, but the images are a nice image of what life might have been like in the twenties or thirties, during the influx of immigration and merging of people into crowded cities. Now everything is bright and clean and the community was a mix of different peoples, but it was a neat representation. I think it could be used to teach students a little about helping others and being kind. It also could be used to teach about times during immigration. I loved the fact that the scarf was so bright red, and it was so different from the background. I would want to make sure my students' noticed that too. ( )