Posts Tagged ‘historical fiction’
We Stand on the Shoulders of Those Who Came Before!
Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone; illustrations by Ted Lewin Dedicated to her father’s memory AND the pursuit of the “American Dream”, Elisa Bartone’s 1994 Caldecott Honor Book provides a favorite theme of mine for the picture book – showing a window back into the immigrant American experience, in all its variations, which slips further…
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