opened the notebook and turned to the pages where he’d done some quick sketches of animals. Now it was time to write about them. To write about all of New York, actually . . . he didn’t know where to begin!
Benjamin chewed his eraser and thought about the most exciting place he’d seen in the city. It wasn’t the subway or the Empire State Building, Brooklyn Heights or even Central Park. It was a place that few tourists would see, but a place that contained some of the city’s greatest surprises.
He turned to a new page and wrote Your the name of it across the top: Your Backyard Is Wild . And then he went to work!
Christiane Shoenhair, Liam McEvilly