I have to admit that I purchased this book 1) because my best friend from high school lived in Park Slope 2)because it has Brooklyn in the title and that's where I grew up 3) I felt nostalgic just looking at the cover. What a surprise it was to me when I finally got around to reading it. A thoroughly enjoyable love story with terrific descriptions of living in a "neighborhood" and all that that brings with it. It ended up to be one of my top 10 picks of the year.

I bought this book for all the wrong reasons. #1. Because my best friend from high school lived in Park Slope, the setting of this book. #2. Because it had Brooklyn in the title. #3. I felt nostalgic just looking at the cover. What a surprise it was to me when I finally got around to reading it. A thoroughly enjoyable love story (not gushy at all) with terrific descriptions of living in a "neighborhood" and all that that brings with it. It ended up to be one of my top 10 picks in '98.

Jennie Fields does a great job of showing, rather than telling, this story; her artful writing draws in the reader and reveals everything gradually. I genuinely felt for the main character, Zoe, who has had a lifetime of hardship and pain, and who is still managing to cope gracefully. Reading about the budding romance between Zoe and Keevan filled me with anticipation -- it was absolutely delicious! Fields does an excellent job with the setting -- the descriptions are so vivid and accurate that they matched perfectly my memories of having lived in the same neighborhood. The story's subplots, too, were expertly woven. When I finished this book, I found myself thinking it would make a terrific film, if handled sensitively.

Mary-Louise Gay's illustrations are a perfect complement to Marilyn Singer's text in this book that captures a father/daughter excursion along the Esplanade in Brooklyn, New York to a T.

What will Didi see today? What will she hear today? Who will she greet today? They dance, they jump, they swish and slide...do everything but go slow...because Didi can't! She is a toddler after all!

This is an excellent book for reading out loud or sharing one on one...it will inspire you and your Didi to take a promenade of your own no matter where you live!

My daughter loves to have this book read to her. When Didi says "No" and races ahead of her daddy, my daughter shouts along. Great rhythm to the text, and the illustrations are gratifying to adults as well as children. Lots of familiar things to point out, including, tragically, the north and south towers of the WTC.