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“The city is busy, the city is loud, and it is the absolute perfect place for a nana to live.“

I love how she knitted him a cape while he was sleeping

Nana in the City by Lauren Castillo is the winner of the 2015 Caldecot Medal. This book is very sweet and has great depictions of New York city and how scary it can be to live in a city so big.

“When it was time to leave, I wrapped Nana in my cape. “This will keep you brave,“ I tell her.“

I think this book would be great for early elementary aged children, I think that it shows how to be brave and try new things symbolized by the cape, This book would encourage children that even when things are new and scary they can learn a lot from them and that they may actually enjoy them!

This book won the Caldecott in 2015. This book tells the story of a boy who goes and visits his nana in new york city, he is very nervous at first and thinks the city is loud and scary, his Nana gives him a cape to be brave and then they go through the city and his perception changes, at the end of the story he gives his cape back to his Nana and to keep her brave!

Nana was holding a fancy red cape. ‘For you to wear on our walk today,‘ she said. ‘You‘ll see that the city is not scary at all.‘”

grandparents are special role models, city life

Nana in the City, Caldecott Honor in 2015, is a fictional story with beautiful pictures and a beautiful message. A little boy goes to the city for the very first time to stay with his nana. He is afraid and doesn‘t like what he sees. With the love and support from his grandma, he is brave and begins to see the amazing things that occur in the city life.

#Movember Day 25: With very spare text and such powerful art, the reader feels for this worried, anxious boy who feels the city thrumming in his veins even while indoors. While Nana obviously did not mind this, our young hero is not used to the rumbling and shaking, the incessant noise, the constant fevered lights. #Fever - my review of this awardwinning picturebook: https://wp.me/pDlzr-9cM

I enjoyed this book and think it would be a great one for kids to learn that having an open mind about this is very beneficial!

Caldecott
This is about a boy who visits his Nana in New York City. He loves his Nana but not the city she lives in. Nana tries to convince him otherwise.

"Nana in the City" by Lauren Castillo is a magical RA picture book as it incorporates multiple factors of RF in its text. "Nana in the City" has collected the Caldecott Award, along with the Huffington Post's "Best Picture Book about Family".
"Nana in the City" is about a young boy who enjoys visiting his Nana, but dislikes the city because it is filled with chaos and mayhem. Nana gives the young boy a red cape, which motivates the young boy to be

“For you to wear on our walk today,” she said. “You‘ll see that the city is not scary at all these.”

The illustrations make the city life turn into reality, feeling like you are there hearing, smelling, and experiencing it all.

This book is a great example as to what life in the city is like. This gives a message that everyone‘s lifestyle is different. Others my not understand why one lives where they do and may be uncomfortable in a new setting. But given one thing that makes you feel brave, will allow you to see what makes a city so great! Award: The Caldecott Medal; Published: 2014; Illustrator: Lauren Castillo