![]() ![]() ![]() Kodinsky's concentration camp tattoo-further embellish this moving story-a tribute to the strength of all family bonds. Other telling details-Russian icons, flowing choir robes, Mr. Her vibrant pencil-and-wash illustrations glow-actual family photographs have been worked into several spreads. Without being heavy-handed, Polacco's text conveys a tremendous pride of heritage as it brims with rich images from her characters' African American and Russian Jewish cultures. After being initiated into a neighbors family by a solemn backyard ceremony, a young Russian American girl and her African American. Sharing her own family tradition, the narrator teaches the boys how to decorate Russian ``pysanky'' eggs, that both turn a profit and touch the heart of the crotchety immigrant hatmaker. Kodinsky's hat shop, they plot to raise the money to buy it for her. ![]() When the children hear Miss Eula longing for the fancy Easter bonnet in Mr. ![]() Students will listen to the story, answer questions, and complete a project. Brothers Stewart and Winston often invite the girl to join them and their Gramma Eula Mae-whose choir singing is ``like slow thunder and sweet rain''-at the Baptist church and to come for Miss Eula's bountiful chicken dinner. The Art of Miss Chew by Patricia Polacco explores a little girls love of art and her struggle to read. Polacco-in the role of young narrator-introduces another cast of characters from her fondly remembered childhood. ![]()
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