Book Review : Nothing ever happens on 90th street

Name :  Nothing ever happens on 90th street 

Author : Roni Schotter |. Illustrator : Kyrsten brooker | Genre : picture book, writing | Age 7 plus .

  Basically written for budding young writers , this book also serves as enlightening read for us adults. Whenever most of us get a call over phone or if we get to meet someone on the road there will be a common question , "What's special?" and the reply is the same NOTHING, AS USUAL ,. And this book Nothing Ever Happens on 90th street , breaks such stereotypes of ours and changes our view from Nothing to Lots of things , of course lots of interesting things . 

 

Storyline:

Eva , sits on the front porch of her apartment on  the 90th street , with a notebook in hand , unwrapping her cinnamon danish she recollects what her teacher Mrs. DeMarco said , Write about what you know , this is the topic given for her writing project . Eva gives a glance at the street, crying sound of a kid , some horn sounds , Mr. Chang standing outside his seafood emporium , huh .. as usual and nothing else sighed Eva . 

Mr. Sims an actor came out of the apartment ,on seeing Eva he asks "writing??eva replies Trying , but nothing ever happens on 90 th street , Mr. Sims says , Eva don't say like that , the world is a stage and everyone has a part to play , so  always observe carefully and note the details . 

Likewise whoever crosses her , gives her a tip or advice on writing , One of the tip given by a dancer is to "imagine and ask ,what if ?yourself Eva " With all the tips and tricks how Eva crafts the story is the rest .

Review : 

An excellent resource for narrative writing . The story itself makes the kids to be seated at the edge of a chair with a curious mind waiting to know what will happen next .The content of the story teach all the qualities needed for writing , Developing a plot, Observation , Imagination, Dialogue, Suspense, poetry , romance . It has more text when compared to other picture book , but still an interesting read . Illustrations are interesting and are in the form of a collage. 

"There's always a new way with the old words ".. So all budding writers don't wait, find a new way and spice up your writing with the words .