Yard sale - eve bunting

While the topic of moving is covered in a multitude of picture books, this one looks at it from a difficult perspective that most authors choose to avoid or gloss over.

-- School Library Journal (starred review) Almost everything Callies family owns is in their front yard -- their furniture, their potted flowers, even Callies bike.

They cant stay in this house and are moving to a smaller apartment where most of their things wont fit, so today they are having a yard sale.

With sensitivity and grace, Eve Bunting and Lauren Castillo portray an event at once familiar and difficult, making clear that a home isnt about what you have, but whom you hold close.