Ballad illustrated by Charles Santoso and pushing boundaries with patterns

and pushing boundaries with patterns that twist stitches in every row for more advanced textures

performers—for whom the home represents the ultimate canvas of self-expression

humankind set foot on the moon

John Lewis’s story has always been a complicated narrative of bravery

and a splendid example of what a community can accomplish when everyone is included

Ballad illustrated by Charles Santoso and pushing boundaries with patternsA New York Times Best Illustrated Childrens Book of 2013! Ballad is a story. It is also a narrative song, and like all great stories, it deepens with each retelling. Ballad builds over seven sequences. The first has three images: school, path, home. The next builds upon the first, giving us: school, street, path, forest, home. The next five sequences take up this story, but with new words and images that nearly double the previous sequence. Here a