The Parts of a Whole
How Brian Floca’s ‘Locomotive’ Creates Sensory Experiences Through Literary and Visual Elements
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14 min readSep 18, 2023
Brian Floca published his Caldecott-Award-winning children’s book Locomotive in 2013, receiving widespread acclaim nearly immediately. A Children’s Literature Review column suggests why there has been such a robust response explaining how the story “not only provides…