Papa Brings Me the World

(Hardback)

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When you keep your eyes and heart wide open, new friends await you wherever you go. Most parents drive a car or ride a bus or train to work-but not Lulu's papa. He navigates mountains, deserts, and oceans, each time returning home with pockets full of treasures. There's an ancient calculator from China, a musical mbira from Zimbabwe, and special games from Sumatra. But the best treasures are special stories Papa tells when he comes home-tales of playing peek a boo with rare birds in the Andes and riding dragons in the Irish Sea. This long-distance love story between parent and child celebrates inclusivity, imagination, and the richness of global cultures. For fans of The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson and Drawn Together. Christy Ottaviano Books

Reviews

A Junior Library Guild Selection

With its inviting story and imaginative illustrations, this picture book could spark curiosity about faraway places and encourage global awareness in young children. --Booklist, starred review

Collages rendered with cut, layered paper and finished off with painted textures and rubber stamps create a warm, earthy atmosphere . . . A comforting story that will prompt exploration at home or in school. --Kirkus Reviews

Kostecki-Shaw's mixed-media illustrations have a richness of texture, pattern, and color wonderfully suited to depicting the dazzling array of multicultural mementos . . .The author's look back never falters in conveying a child's perspective, in a cozy and loving tale that includes an important message of global connection. --School Library Journal

Through pages that tell of trips to Cameroon, China, Mali, Mexico, Sumatra, and Zimbabwe, among other places, the creator conveys the idea that there are many ways to be in the world; she also imagines one way that parents can offer glimpses of its bounty as an introduction to broader experience. --Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw is the author and illustrator of Luna & Me: The True Story of a Girl Who Lived in a Tree to Save a Forest, My Travelin' Eye and Same, Same But Different, for which she won the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award and the South Asia Book Award. A freelance artist who studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Illustration Academy, Jenny lives in the mountains of northern New Mexico with her family. dancingelephantstudios.com