It is easy to see why Uptown, by Bryan Collier won the Coretta Scott King illustrator award. The pictures in this book told the story as well as, or maybe even better than, the words. In this story, a young boy told about his uptown home. It was a great way to describe inner city life in a way that younger students could understand. I was already hooked on the first page where he compared the Metro-North train to a caterpillar. I thought that was a cute and inventive way to describe the world as he sees it.
This book could be a good way to start students talking about where they live and how they see the world around them. How would they describe it to someone who had never been there? I would love to use this book in my primary classroom or maybe even in an older elementary classroom. The pictures and the words worked together extremely well to tell this boy's story about his uptown home.
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