"Nan was inside.
A song was inside.
Breakfast was inside.
Lunch was inside.
Dinner was inside."
The opening spread shows a large urban area, showing a number of buildings with colored windows. Turn the page and a little girl sits atop her bed in a room that speaks to her interests: books, family, music, her computer, the environment, drawing, and her dog. She lets her audience know that 'I was inside'. Inside with her many treasures, she went to school on her computer with all the other children in her class. They, too, were inside.
Everyone was inside, together and only able to see each other on screens. The family ate inside, did puzzles and read books there, too. Inside, three was night and day for every day of the week. Inside they all stayed ... sometimes bored, or sad, or mad and scared. A recurring dream offered hope for days when being inside was no longer the only place to be.
"Everyone would be outside.
A game would be outside.
All my friends
would be outside.
Even Ms. Gomez
would be outside."
Inside taught many things, because love was also there.
Following his text which never mentions the word COVID, the author encourages children to share their own stories of being inside, and to add drawings of what they did while there.
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