Each page contains a tiny map with different colored dots to show where each person is, making it a great exercise in spatial relations and showing how we are only a small dot in a wide world. Like the book Madlenka, a great book as well, however, aimed at a slightly older audience ( Madlenka's Dog is easily enjoyed and understood by any age, such as by my 2 year old daughter), Madlenka's city block is full of people from all across the world. Beautifully illustrated with the authors signature, detail intensive style, this book manages in few words to purvey an incredible lesson on imagination, our place in the vast universe, and how people from all over the world are very similar where it really matters despite their difference in culture, looks, and language. When a little girl is denied a pet dog by her parents, she takes to the streets walking her imaginary dog and all the local residence play along, picturing their own four-legged childhood companions as Madlenka's dog. Peter Sis' Madlenka's Dog is a wonderful edition to any young child's book collection. ' In the universe, on a planet, on a continent, in a country, in a city, in house on a block where everyone is walking a dog, there lives a girl named Madlenka'
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