From Caldecott Award winner Chris Raschka, tales of unforgettable characters who live in a NYC apartment buildingTo the company of ur-New Yorkers likeStuart Little,Harriet the Spy, andLyle, Lyle, Crocodile, let me hold open the door forThe Doormans Repose. A new favorite." Gregory Maguire.marvelously intriguing stories Lemony SnicketSome of us look up at those craggy, mysterious apartment buildings found in theposher parts of New York City and wonder what goes on inside. The DoormansRepose collects ten stories about 777 Garden Avenue, one of the craggiest.The first story recounts the travails of the new doorman, who excels at all his tasks except perhaps the most important onetalking baseball. Otherstell of a long-forgotten room, a cupid-like elevator, and theunlikely romance of a cerebral psychologist and a jazz musician, both of whom are mice.Because the animals talk and the machinery has feelings, these are childrens stories.Otherwise they are for anyone intrigued by what happens when manypeople, strangers or kin, live together under one roof.

 

There are 88 pages in this book. This is a chapter book. Publishers market early chapter books at readers aged 6-10 years. This book was published 2017 by The New York Review of Books, Inc .

Chris Raschka is a writer-illustrator of over sixty books for children. Among them are Charlie Parker