COMMENDED LIST: Two Days in May
Staff -- School Library Journal, 8/1/2000
COMMENDED LIST
TAYLOR, Harriet Peck.
Two Days
in May.
illus. by Leyla Torres. Farrar.
Tr $16. ISBN 0-374-37988-2.
A Latino family is at the center of this quiet picture-book story set in an urban neighborhood where everyone pulls together when five deer show up in a community garden. As soon as the neighbors learn that the animal-control office plans to shoot the creatures, they camp out in the garden overnight to protect the deer until a wildlife-rescue organization picks them up the next day. A strong sense of community and an awareness of vanishing natural habitats are at the core of this discussion-provoking story that is based on a true event. (Gr 1-4)
