Illustrator’s agent: Brenda Bowen, Sanford J. It’s a quiet but effective reminder of the value of practice. Smart design decisions-including a square trim size, origami-patterned end pages, and subtle fold marks that divide Karas’s ( A Poem in Your Pocket) images into vignettes-create a graceful visual underpinning to the theme, and an origami project is included for readers.

With the family fed up, Joey heads to his favorite Mexican restaurant, where the table napkins give him an idea. After a Japanese student’s mother introduces origami to Joey’s class, he dives headlong into practicing, using whatever he can get his hands on-homework, his sister’s sheet music, and money from his mother’s purse. At home he had a collection of old road maps, the bellows on an accordion made it his favorite instrument, and he even tucked himself into a foldaway bed at night. Brian Karas A creative young boy with a passion for practicing origami finds a surprising source of. Joey was a little boy with a particular fascination.

When readers first see him, he’s staring dreamily at a neatly folded taco he also loves maps and the accordion, and he even sleeps in a folding bed (one that doesn’t like to stay unfolded, not that Joey appears to mind). More-igami Written by Dori Kleber Illustrated by G. The hero of Kleber’s debut, a brown-skinned boy named Joey, is obsessed with all things folded. A creative young boy with a passion for practicing origami finds a surprising source of encouragement on his diverse city block. From collecting snow globes to inventing palindromes, unusual passions and interests abound among humans young and old.

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