The Travel Game - John Grandits

Illustrated by R. W. Alley
Published May, 2009
Ages 5-8
32 pgs.
$16.00
Rating: 3
Clarion/HMH
Pumpkin Endpapers

A young boy lives with his Polish-American family of tailors in Buffalo, New York. He helps around the shop, and his extended family lives upstairs. Whenever he doesn't want to take a nap, his aunt plays the "travel game" with him. They spin a globe, point to a new place, and look it up in their book 1001 Places from Around the World. As they look up the pictures they make up stories as if they were there themselves. Usually, Tad falls asleep as he imagines, but this time he wakes himself up, covers his sleeping aunt, and returns to the tailor shop to help work

We get facts about what they eat (a Polish-American meal) and the place they visit: Hong Kong. Fairly interesting. Cute illustrations. Lots of white, though. I like the illustrations.