My Steps
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Overview
As any city kid knows, the front steps can be one of the best places to play. In this award-winning story, an African-American girl invites readers to share in the private playtime world just outside her front door, where each season brings new adventures. The cloth edtion was named a Best Book of 1996 by Child magazine and a Choice of the Cooperative Children's Book Center.A young Afro-American girl describes her favorite playground--the front steps of her home on which she and her friends play and experience the changing seasons.
Synopsis
As any city kid knows, the front steps can be one of the best places to play. In this award-winning story, an African-American girl invites readers to share in the private playtime world just outside her front door, where each season brings new adventures. The cloth edtion was named a Best Book of 1996 by Child magazine and a Choice of the Cooperative Children's Book Center.
Children's Literature
Every city child who has played on his or her front steps with friends can relate to this story. In this story, readers enter one young girl's world where she shares the precious happenings that enriche her life and the lives of her two friends. Each season brings a different experience from sucking popsicles in the summer to sweeping the leaves in the fall.