The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Verde, Susan

Hey, Wall: A Story of Art and Community

40 pp. | Simon/Wiseman | September, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-5313-4 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4814-5314-1

(2) K-3 Illustrated by John Parra. A little boy sees a neglected wall facing his house and decides to take action, which sparks a community effort to turn the wall into a public mural. Parra's warm acrylic illustrations display a range of skin tones, and the rendering of the wall itself evokes the texture of bricks that have been painted over with a shade of cornflower-blue.

Reviewer: Julie Hakim Azzam | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2018