The city glows with light in the middle of a steaming summer evening as music, laughter, and the conversations of people drift out of buildings along streets alive with rumbling trucks and zipping cars. Inside, everybody is doing something: talking on the phone, cooking dinner, or tapping at the computer. No one has time to play games with a little sister who retreats to play video games alone until...
...the lights go out. All of them.
The beam of a flashlight cuts through the darkness as mom comes to the girl's rescue, but across the sweltering summer city that was full of light, now there is none. The city seems to hold its breath. What will they do?
Experience the gentle, homelike quality of John Rocco's writing and illustrations as a family and a neighborhood rediscover themselves in the ingenuity which turns a city-wide blackout into a nighttime adventure. To enjoy Blackout with your own children, find it and more books by John Rocco locally at the Gail Borden, Schaumburg, Poplar Creek, Batavia, and Bartlett public libraries.
Publisher: Disney Hyperion Books ©2011
ISBN:978-1-4231-2190-9
Source of review copy: Gail Borden Public Library
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