Amelia’s Road

"Altman's first picture book provides an affecting and ultimately hopeful look at a transient way of living that will be unfamiliar to most of her audience. Sanchez's richly textured acrylic paintings deftly portray the arduous daily routine of migrant workers as well as the wide range of Amelia's emotions."

"What will stay with kids is the physical sense of what it's like to work and move all the time. . . The yearning in the story is palpable: the dream of what many long for and others take for granted — a settled home, white and tidy, with a fine old shade tree growing in the yard. Security."

"A spare, unsentimental, empathetic picture of a quietly courageous child making the best of difficult necessity. Sanchez provides handsome acrylic paintings in a monumental, fresco-like style that emphasizes these characters' dignity and humanity."

"An important title for any library serving migrant populations, Amelia's Road should be a welcome addition almost anywhere. Useful in a variety of educational units, it works equally well as a read-aloud or read-alone."