At private school, Lucas compares his home life with the supposedly perfect lives of the other students.
Lucas, whose life at home is not perfect, dreams of a strange light that leads him to the place where perfect people live, where everything is more beautiful than he ever couldve imagined, but where things arent as perfect as they seem. (Picture Book Preschool-Grade 3)
From the Newbery Medal-winning author of Last Stop on Market Street comes this moving picture book about the perils of perfectionism.
Lucas goes to the perfect school in the perfect neighborhood. But life at home is not so perfect. His dads old work truck stalls in front of the school. The electricity is out when he gets home, and he doesnt even have time to show his mom his report (on which he received a perfect score) before she rushes off to her night job.
That night, Lucas dreams of a strange light, which he follows down the fire escape, into the alleyway, clear out of his neighborhood, all the way to the place where the perfect people live. Everything there is more beautiful than he could have imagined. But is it possible things arent as perfect as they seem?
This lyrical, richly illustrated picture book highlights the beauty to be found in even the humblest of homes and in a family that may not be materially rich but is rich in love.
