Synopsis
After a girl says goodbye to friends, she and her family load up the car and head for their new house.
Candice Ransom - Children's Literature
With its short, rhythmic text and crayon-bright illustrations, Moving Day reassures emergent readers who might experience an upcoming move to a new town. Snappy rhyming couplets introduce the first-person narrator and her situation: "Pack my clothes./Pack my toys./Say good-bye to the girls and boys." Readers follow an African American girl as she packs, travels with her family by car, eats in restaurant, stays overnight in a motel, and then moves into her new house. The ending shows the family in a cozy scene, reading while surrounded by moving cartons. Concrete images in text and artwork come together except in one confusing instance. The text, "Play a game. I'm the winner!" requires the illustration to explain that the narrator is in a motel. A word list is included as back matter. 2003, Children's Press/Scholastic,