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PreS This slice-of-life vignette takes readers through a day in an urban apartment building. The book is divided into three sections-morning, day, and night-and time flows smoothly for the young residents ("one baby, two little girls, three big boys, four little boys, two cats, and a bird") from the time they wake until they are tucked into bed. Spot illust...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The rhythm of life with young children, in all its messiness, absurdity, regimentation, and joy, permeates this look at a typical day in the lives of four families in the same apartment building. As in What James Likes Best (rev. 5/03), Schwartz here succeeds in accentuating small moments, as when toddler Henry insists upon dressing outdoors and then "runs up and down the steps of the small red brick building ten times" before heading to the grocery store wi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More