1. Welcome to Lonnie C. Motion’s World

2. Welcome to New York

3. Welcome to Brooklyn, NY

4. Ways to enter Brooklyn… Walk over the bridge

5. Drive a car

6. Ride the bus

7. Hop on a subway.

8. Dad’s work Lonnie’s dad worked in the manholes for ConEdison

9. School kids

10. Lonnie’s favorite team – NY Mets

11. Brooklyn neighborhoods – mural project

12. Rooftops Rooftops are good places to get away from the noise of the street and be under the open sky.

13. Typical houses (brownstones) in Brooklyn

14. Jacqueline Woodson, author Where it takes place: In the Bedford Stuyvesant (BedStuy) and Park Slope sections of Brooklyn, NY Where I wrote it: In Park Slope, Brooklyn. Why I wrote it: Lonnie’s voice was in my head. The poems started coming and the rest…the rest is this book, I guess. --Jacqueline Woodson, author