Castillo, L. (2014). Nana in the
city. Boston: Clarion Books.
What happens when a person you love lives in a busy, loud,
scary city? That surely cannot be a place where a Nana can live, but oh no! That’s
where this little boy’s Nana lives!!!! Everything was so scary, everything was
so unfamiliar. If it wasn’t for his Nana, his visit would be more than
terrifying and traumatizing. But Nanas always know best. Nanas sure know how to
soothe their grandchildren and this Nana is not the exception; she has the
perfect solution to appease her grandson’s fear of the busy, loud city in which
she lives in. And so her grandson’s fear disappears and instead is replaced
with confidence and a new love for the busy loud city in which his Nana lives
in. He can’t wait to come back and visit again.
I love the nature of this story. Adults are usually the ones worrying about children, it's rare that a child voices his concern about the safety of others, not because they believe their home is not safe.
Nana makes sure that she reassures her grandson that living in the city is not as bad as he thinks he is and is able to make him understand that she loves New York because that's where her home is. At the end he even states he's eager to come back and visit again. I don't want to say it's cute because that is not a good word to describe a book, but it is an incredibly cute story.
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