Sunday Shopping
Illustrator
Shadra Strickland
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Publication Year
2015
ISBN
9781600604386
Pages
32 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Every Sunday night a young girl and her grandmother go on an imaginary shopping trip using play money and the advertisements in the newspaper as a guide for their purchases.
Grade Level
K-3
Lexile Measure
AD600L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Kinship care; Military families; grandparents raising grandchildren; children living with relatives; parent in the military; mother in the military
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
Black (African American)
Family Formation
grandmother
Awards
Cybils Awards, 2015, Nominee, Fiction Picture Book
20 Years of Dia, 2016 Birth to Pre-K
Best Children's Books of the Year, 2016 Ages 5 to 9
Guide Book to Gift Books, 2016 Picture Books
Keywords
shopping; photos; magazine; grandmother; flowers; money; clothes; food; school supplies; trophy; spelling
Diversity Impact
indirect
STARS Citation
Derby, Sally, "Sunday Shopping" (2015). Diverse Families. 1932.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1932