A heartfelt story about a homesick young girl whose new friend helps her learn to like her new home. Sofie doesn't like living in big American city and would rather go back to Senegal. "It is really too ugly here," she tells her grandmother on the phone. "I think I should come home." "Before you come back," her grandmother sayds, "you'll just have to make it pretty." But how can Sofie ever make the city pretty? It all begins when she meets a girl with a box of chalk.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Boyds Mills Press .

Janet Montecalvo has worked as an illustrator and a graphic designer for feature films, including Mermaids, Second Sight, and Stanley and Iris . She lives in Framingham, Massachusetts. Karima Grant is the author of Nelson Mandela, a biography for young readers and a winner of the MacArthur-Leithauser Travel Award for Excellence in Creative Writing. Currently she lives with her husband and three children in Dakar, Senegal.