Book Description
for Keeping the City Going by Brian Floca
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
While the pandemic has kept everyone inside, a few people remain on the streets of New York City. They keep the city going—delivering food on bikes and in trucks, driving buses and subways trains and taxis and garbage trucks. They are postal workers, firefighters, police, nurses, doctors, and EMTs. They are the people who keep the water and gas and electricity and internet going. And every night at 7:00, people emerge from their homes to clap and cheer and remind one another that they’re all in this together. Detailed watercolor illustrations of city life, with a heavy emphasis on vehicles, are a noteworthy aspect of this marvelous tribute to essential workers. (Ages 4-8)
CCBC Choices 2022. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2022. Used with permission.