A brown-skinned girl and her dad leave their brownstone building in the morning, journeying through the busy city, including a ride on a crowded subway, to her school and classroom. Their progress is tracked completely in a narrative comprised of prepositional phrases ("across the street, outside the station, at the booth, beyond the turnstile / below the ground..." ). The striking collage illustrations are filled with the buzz of a busy big city, but amid all the details, readers will always be able to find the protagonist in her bright red shirt. While school is her ultimate destination, a double-page illustration at the end of the book retraces her return trip at the end of the day and takes her right up until bedtime. With a turn of the final page, she's "out the door" again as a new day begins. (Ages 3-7)