Do You Remember?

Ages 4 to 8, Grades P to 3

From the multiple award-winning creator of Small in the City and the illustrator of I Talk Like a River comes a fresh and moving look at memories, filtered through the mind of a child.

Tucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade favorite memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out.

Now it’s just the two of them, and the house where all those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favorite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined.

In a series of wistful, bucolic vignettes, as achingly fleeting as childhood memories always become, Sydney Smith takes us into the mind of a young person processing a bevy of complex emotions and experiences. Do You Remember? is a stirring meditation on holding fast to the best of the past, and choosing to believe the future holds good yet to come.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

About the Author

Sydney Smith is the author and illustrator of Small in the City, which received eight starred reviews and a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators. Other books he has illustrated include The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart; Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson; and Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz, which was awarded the 2018 Kate Greenaway Medal. His accolades include two Governor General's Awards for Illustrated Children's Books and four New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year citations. His most recent book, I Talk Like a River, written by Jordan Scott, won the Schneider Family Book Award, is an ALA Notable book and has received eight starred reviews.  He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Author Residence: Halifax, Nova Scotia