MadlenkaA trip around a city block is like a trip around the world! Peeking out through a die cut window on the jacket, Madlenka invites the reader to enter her world. And what a world it is! On the surface, it looks like an ordinary city block, but as we meet Madlenka's neighbors the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice cream man, the Latin American grocer, a retired opera singer from Germany, an African American school friend, and the Asian