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Ages 5-7. Levinson's warm story about an immigrant family coming to America is a ``Reading Rainbow'' selection.

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Gr. 2-5. A grandmother tells her granddaughter how she journeyed to America with her brother in the early twentieth century to join her parents.

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Grandma tells her granddaughter of her own Mama's voyage ``on a big boat to America.'' PW's starred review praised the ``superb paintings'' and the ``quiet understatement that magnifies [the text's] emotional effects.'' Ages 4-8. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Gr. 1-3. A little girl is told about her great-grandmother's voyage to America. A second collaboration, I Go with My Family to Grandma's, portrays life in New York City at the turn of the century.

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Gr 1-4 Many years ago two small immigrants made the boat journey alone from the Old World to Hester Street. Theirs is the special story that the young narrator's great-grandmother used to tell. The story is a common, satisfying one of a brother and sister's reunion with their parents. Nothing extraordinary happens, but of course, the family's life is changed forever. There is no dialogue in the story, and only the details important to a child are included, so that it resembles an oral history. This sparseness of text has left the field to the illustrator, in whose full-color drawings are crowds, faces and drama quite beyond this one family's tale. Young readers can return to the book many times with satisfaction: there is a lot to see, to guess at and talk about. In this year when the Statue of Liberty is being restored, this book becomes an excellent introduction to the passage through Ellis Island. Anna Biagioni Hart, Sherwood Regional Library, Alexandria, Va. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.