This little boy really wants to play baseball, but he’s new in town and too shy to ask the other kids to play. Instead, he ends up on a nearby bench populated by a number of old men. As the days pass, the boy tries to fit in with this new crowd, and they decide to show him how to have a good time.
I loved the illustrations in this nearly-wordless picture book – they looked like they had just been taken out of a Pixar movie, and the wit and charm would easily fit right in alongside Pixar movies like Up!. Newman can do so much with just pictures, and this is a great book to share with people who’ve enjoyed other wordless books like The Lion and the Mouse, Flotsam, Tuesday, or Wave.
Find it at IndieBound.
Read it with:
Flotsam by David Weisner
Wave by Suzy Lee
The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
Tuesday by David Weisner
Let's Do Nothing! by Tony Fusile
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