The Quiet Way Home

A really great story with beautiful illustrations. It is too bad people are asking so much $$$ for it. There is a very similar book called "The Listening Walk" by Paul Showers that is worth your while to check out...

Received exactly as described! So excited to have this added to our collection.

FYI- this has been turned into an app that can be bought for $.99- ninety nine cents- at the I-Tunes/app store. It's not as good on a device, but it is a beautiful story and it's quite expensive as a physical book since it's out of print. The app can read aloud or let you read and there are puzzles to do (my guy LOVES the puzzles- and all the onomatopoeia in the story!) It's a way for Five in a Row parents to enjoy this great little gem without paying more for the single title than the actual curriculum :-)

"The Quiet Way Home" by Bonny Becker, is a children's book about a daddy walking his little girl home from school. Instead of choosing the "noisy way," with lawn mowers and honking horns, they decide to take the quiet way. On their journey, we get to take in all of the sights and subtle sounds that surround them... a honeybee, kittens scratching, a tumbling piece of crumpled paper. I cannot describe why, but between the wording of Becker's story and the colorful, happy pictures of illustrator Benrei Huang, you feel like you've entered the story, appreciating the small things in life and looking at the world through a child's eyes and ears. I think you will also enjoy the daddy/daughter love shown. Theirs is the kind of relationship that doesn't need constant conversation or frenetic activity; rather, it transcends quiet and noisy, and the reader gets to be a part of what would surely be a lifelong memory for the girl in the story... a spring day, a wonderous world, and the daddy who shares it with her. Every time I read this book, it relaxes me and brings peace. I know that sounds odd to say, but my husband has noticed it, too. Whenever we read this book to our children, we're more relaxed at the end of it than we were before we started reading. It's a simple story and it will be one you treasure. Highly recommend.

Very interesting book. Had mine for years (since I was a kid) got it as a gift, the illustrations are also very beautiful.

What a wonderful book! My granddaughter (7 yo) applauded this book while we were reading it. How important it is to teach children the delight to be found in the quiet, simple things of living!