One man wearing a stained hat shouted, “What’s your business here?” in a truculent voice.Ī woman yelled, “Go back where you’ve come from!” They had paused in their conversations and were staring at our carriage, staring at me, with such malevolence that my blood chilled. When he slowed to avoid a woman singing in the street, I’d gazed at the people around us. The carriage bounced and shook so that I feared a wheel might come loose. Robert, the carriage driver, rushed through it fast, the collar of his greatcoat half hiding his face, his gaze fixed on the road. It had seemed to me at first to be filled with gaiety. And then there’d been the strangeness of the last village we’d gone through, where all the shops and houses were brightly lit, people stood around the street, music played loudly through the open doors of one of the establishments. The journey had been tiring and difficult. We’d traveled through wind and rain that grew fiercer the closer we got to the coast. Though an orphan, I would have a family again. But I told myself to be brave and to consider myself fortunate to have an aunt and uncle to go to. It was sad and strange to think of myself as an orphan now that my parents had died. Award: AISLE Read-Aloud Books Too Good To Miss (1995.I’d taken two traps, a coach, and a carriage to get here from my old, beloved home in Edinburgh.
Once they get to the shelter where they were staying at, a fireman brings their cats, who have bonded over their experience. In the upheaval, their cat and a neighbor's cat are lost.
After all the racism and judgement happening and not getting along with their neighbor, they must come together and put their differences aside. The family is forced to leave their apartment when the building catches fire.
Riots and commotion are happening around Los Angeles, where Daniel and his mother live. David Diaz's acrylic, collage-like illustration of the tale earned the book the 1995 Caldecott Medal. They added the book to the list as paving the way towards the genre of serious picture books. The book made the list of One Hundred Books that Shaped the Century compiled by the Staff at the School Library Journal. In the end, the cats teach their masters how to get along. The ongoing fires and looting force neighbors who previously disliked each other to work together to find their cats. It tells the story of a Los Angeles riot and its aftermath through the eyes of a young boy named Daniel. Smoky Night is a 1994 children's book by Eve Bunting.
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