A 2021 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books selection

 

★ Kirkus Reviews (starred review): "Essential reading about essential workers that is informative, reassuring, and positive."

 

★ Publishers Weekly (starred review): "Floca brings precision and expert draftsmanship to renderings of working vehicles, centering the heroes working to get supplies out and save lives, and to the equipment that helps them do it."

 

★ Booklist (starred review): "[L]yrical text and exquisite, detailed illustrations.... A moving tribute that remembers essential workers and community in a time of loss."

 

The Wall Street Journal: "At once a statement of gratitude and a time capsule—at least, let’s hope so—Keeping the City Going exudes the feeling of patriotic common cause that prevailed during those first extraordinary months."