Between the Lines

Description

Age range 5 to 9 With vibrant art that shifts to a colorless world and back again, this is a story of a community lost and rediscovered-and how one child's actions can cascade into something that makes all the difference. A young boy who loves his community notices that as neighbors stop interacting, the colors around them slowly fade. Then a thunderstorm sweeps away the last hints of bluebird skies and lemon-Popsicle days and leaves a rift in the road that doesn't get fixed. As the adults around him move on, the boy dreams of the way life once was. He decides that he doesn't want to live in a world without color, so he sets out to change things...

Lindsay Ward is the creator of the Dexter T. Rexter series as well as Scooper and Dumper; Rosie: Stronger than Steel; This Book Is Gray; Brobarians; Helping Hospital; Rosco vs. the Baby; The Importance of Being 3; and the Wheels on the Go series. Her book Please Bring Balloons was also made into a play. Lindsay lives with her family in Peninsula, Ohio. Learn more about her at www.lindsaymward.com.

"A vibrant neighborhood loses its color, literally, as the community becomes fractured." -Kirkus Reviews "The illustrations...bring the atmosphere and ideas of the story to life. The depictions of both isolation and community in a dense urban neighborhood are poignant, especially after a year when COVID-19 forced people worldwide to forgo, and then to reinvent, community togetherness." -Booklist "An impressively original, charmingly entertaining, and memorably illustrated picture book story for children ages 4-8, Between the Lines is unreservedly recommended for family, daycare center, preschool, elementary school, and community library collections for young readers." -Midwest Book Review