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When a young boy embarks on a journey alone . . .
he trails a colony of penguins,
undulates in a smack of jellyfish,
clasps hands with a constellation of stars,
naps for a night in a bed of clams,
and follows a trail of shells, 
home to his tribe of friends.
If Lane Smith's Caldecott Honor Book Grandpa Green was an homage to aging and the end of life, There Is a Tribe of Kids is a meditation on childhood and life's beginning. Smith's vibrant sponge-paint illustrations and use of unusual collective nouns such as smack and unkindness bring the book to life. Whimsical, expressive, and perfectly paced, this story plays with language as much as it embodies imagination.

这是一本关于寻找同伴、寻找归属感的图画书。故事讲述一个男孩和一群小山羊待在一起，但山羊妈妈很快就唤走了小山羊，只剩下男孩自己。接着，他又去追赶几只企鹅，跳入在水中和一小群水母一起游泳，坐在大鲸鱼的背上跟着它们去见首领……男孩模仿各种动物、向他们表达善意，做了许多的努力，只想要找到一个可以接纳自己的群体，但却总是遭遇失败和挫折。直到最后，他跟着一路的贝壳，来到一个地方，这里有整整一个部落的孩子，都跟男孩一个样，他终于找到了自己，找到了同伴。