This kind of thing rarely happens at all, but in a part of the country where weather almost never affects any aspect of our lives, a long-term loss of power is even more rare. In September of this year a blackout affected my neighborhood as well as all of San Diego county, leaving almost a million and a half people without power from about 3 pm through most of the night. While Rocco's book is set in Brooklyn and inspired by the blackout of 2003 that affected the city and beyond, his story finds a way to be both delightfully specific and universal at the same time. I don't know how I missed John Rocco's superb new picture book Blackout, but it came into my life at just the right time! And, it was recently named one of the 10 Best Picture Books of 2011 by the New York Times Book Review and a very prestigious panel of judges this year.
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