Miss Viola And Uncle Ed Lee - Hardcover

Alice Faye Duncan is a school librarian and the author of The National Civil Rights Museum Celebrates Everyday People and Willie Jerome. She was born and still lives in the city of Memphis, Tennessee. Love, tears, old folks, children, music, and the sun inspire her to write. Miss Viola and Uncle Ed Lee is her second picture book.

Kindergarten-Grade 2?It's "Story Day" at Bradley's school, and he tells his class about how he helped two of his elderly neighbors become friends. Miss Viola is as "neat as a pin," while Uncle Ed Lee is as "junky as a pack rat." When the man tells Bradley that he would like to meet Miss Viola, the boy passes the message on, but the woman insists that her neighbor must "do something about that messy yard" before she will even consider a visit. Uncle Ed Lee cleans up his act and invites her and Bradley over for lemonade. Stock's realistic illustrations, rendered in soft watercolors, portray tenderness between these African-American characters despite their differences (right down to Uncle Ed Lee's dog and Miss Viola's cat). Told in Bradley's informal voice, the narrative makes the boy's friendship with his two neighbors believable and points out that opposites do attract. This upbeat tale will fill a multitude of requests (e.g., intergenerational stories and friendship) and makes a nice choice for reading aloud.?Olga R. Barnes, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, NC
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