To distract himself from what he's now feeling, Milo draws the lives of the people around him. On the train there are a variety of different fellow riders, like the businessman with the blank lonely face or the woman in a wedding dress with a pup in her handbag. Milo and his older sister are taking their monthly Sunday subway ride. Smart and sweet, it could teach you a thing or two about false conclusions. Milo combines the messaging of those other two books with a gut punch ending and a slow sinking in of the story at its core. But now, looking at Milo Imagines the World I know what they were leaping for. Strong running leaps towards something that they never quite reached. Last Stop on Market Street and Carmela Full of Wishes struck me as good dry runs. You see I haven’t always (how do I put this?) felt the full weight of the Robinson/de la Peña partnership’s charm offensive. we might do it to a certain book that’s sitting on my lap right now. We form instant thoughts and feelings about the strangers that surround us based on the most superfluous of things. But what serves you well in the ancient plains, running from a lion, does not serve you particularly well when making snap judgments in the 21st century. When Homo sapiens were tromping about 250,000 years ago, the ability to size up a potential friend or foe instantaneously could mean the difference between life or death. The human brain loves to form assumptions because long ago that adaptive quality could potentially lead to enduring survival.
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