Home Now & Then Exhibit A Black-Eyed Susan Book Award

A Black-Eyed Susan Book Award Nominee

One of the most influential (and most prolific) illustrators of children's books during the early twentieth century

Noted children's book historian Anita Silvey provides an afterword

friendship blooms again

Home Now & Then Exhibit A Black-Eyed Susan Book AwardA family. A house. A neighborhood. A place to play. A place to feel safe. Little by little, baby Tracy grows. She and her neighbors begin to rescue their street. Together, children and adults plant grass and trees and bushes in the empty spaces. They paint murals over old graffiti. They stop the cars. Everything begins to blossom. In Jeannie Baker's striking, natural collages, an urban community reclaims its land. A drab city street becomes a living,