Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Pena 🟌🟌🟌

Milo and his sister are on the Subway to an unknown destination. To pass the time Milo makes up stories about the passengers on the train and he then draws pictures about what their lives might be like. He is enthralled with a boy in a suit and draws a picture of him living in a castle. At the end of the book Milo realizes you “can’t know anyone just by looking at their face” because the boy in a suit has the same destination as him.

This book is not for everybody. The game of making up stories about people on mass transportation is familiar to all “city kids”. Which, I understand having grown up in NYC but not all children will. The big problem is the ending when both boys end up at a jail to visit their mothers. Not a book I want to read to my young grandchildren.

Published In: 2021
Publisher: Putnam
Age Level: 6-8 years
AR Level: 4.6
Pages: 22
Stars: 3