# Out the Door - Hardcover

by **Christy Hale** (Author)

**Follow a girl through her day in a busy city as she travels to school and back again in this inviting book that teaches directional concepts like over, under, and through.**

**_Out_** _the door,_  
**_down_** _the stoop,_  
**_past_** _the neighbors,_  
**_along_** _the block ..._

Through tree-lined streets, onto a crowded subway car, into the classroom with friends, and finally, retracing her steps back home again. There's so much to see in Christy Hale's warm, richly textured collage artwork and simple, evocative text set in a busy Brooklyn cityscape.

_Out the Door_ is the perfect back-to-school book for young kids learning to find their way around a city. Parents and teachers can use this read-aloud to familiarize kids with a host of directional words to describe their first school days.  
  
**A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year**  
**A _School Library Journal_ Best Book of the Year**  
**A _Publishers Weekly_ Best Book of the Year**  

### Author Biography

Christy Hale has illustrated numerous award-winning books for children, including four that she also wrote: _Todos Iguales/All Equal: Un Corrido de/A Ballad of Lemon Grove_, _Water Land: Land and Water Forms around the World_, _The East-West House: Noguchi's Childhood in Japan_, and _Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building_. An art director, designer, and educator, Hale teaches writing for picture books at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She now lives with her family in Palo Alto, California but spent many years in Brooklyn, NY where this book is set.

**Number of Pages:** 40

**Dimensions:** 0.4 x 11.1 x 8.8 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** October 06, 2020

## Details

- **Price:** 18.99 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
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