I read Dear Street some time back. I enjoyed it, but it was not a “wow best book ever.” However, as I was going through my saved online reader links recently, I found it again. And out of all the ones I was looking at (around a couple dozen or so) there were only a few still active. Therefore, I took it as a sign to read it again. And therefore, while it is available, the Lindsay Zier-Vogel and Caroline Bonne-Muller (illustrated by) book was read via an online reader copy.
A girl loves her street, no matter the time of day or night; the weather; or the season. But she notices not everyone does. The winter is too cold and too much snow, the fall has too many leaves, the summer in the park is too hot, and everyone is busy and grumbling. That is, until they find the special project our girl does: writing letters and hiding them so people can find them. Bonne-Muller’s colors are always bright and the color pops off the page. They are both a character (as they are representing the street) and a supporter of the text.
This is based on the author’s own experience of writing letters to things in their community. Then they opened it up to other people as well. And, as the story goes, a three-year-old wrote a letter to the marigolds, something Zier-Vogel hadn’t noticed before, but now was seeing them in a new light. This allows the reader to start their own project, or it would also be great for a classroom project. 