The Quiet Way Home

by Bonny Becker

Book Overview

When Grandfather fetches a small girl from school, they take the quiet way home. They hear not the loud clanging and rumbling noises, but the "dart-and-flee" of the honeybee; not the hurry-up honks of the busy road, but "the rustle scuffle scrape-a-caper / Tumbling paper" in the alley; not the roar of the lawn mower, but the chip chop of the garden hoe. Huang's bright double-page spreads in acrylic paint and colored pencil show that there's excitement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194895902X
• ISBN13: 9781948959025
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Purple House Press
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A true gem for your child's book collection

"The Quiet Way Home" by Bonny Becker, is a children's book about a daddy walking his little girl home from school. Instead of choosing the "noisy way," with lawn mowers and honking horns, they decide to take the quiet way. On their journey, we get to take in all of the sights and subtle sounds that surround them... a honeybee, kittens scratching, a tumbling piece of crumpled paper. I cannot describe why, but between the wording of Becker's story and the colorful, happy pictures of illustrator Benrei Huang, you feel like you've entered the story, appreciating the small things in life and looking at the world through a child's eyes and ears. I think you will also enjoy the daddy/daughter love shown. Theirs is the kind of relationship that doesn't need constant conversation or frenetic activity; rather, it transcends quiet and noisy, and the reader gets to be a part of what would surely be a lifelong memory for the girl in the story... a spring day, a wonderous world, and the daddy who shares it with her. Every time I read this book, it relaxes me and brings peace. I know that sounds odd to say, but my husband has noticed it, too. Whenever we read this book to our children, we're more relaxed at the end of it than we were before we started reading. It's a simple story and it will be one you treasure. Highly recommend.