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“You‘ll belong to the streets!”

This book does a great job of not only providing historical accuracy but also cultural representations of Italian immigrants.

I enjoyed the historical implications of the book. I think this book allows the reader to go back in time to be an immigrant in the early 20th century in America. The illustrations are a cool water color that sort of molds all together.

Peppe The Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone is a great HF story. This won the Caldecott honor award. This book is about a boy who takes over someone‘s job for a little while as a lamplighter in Italy. I would use this as IR to let the students examine the pictures up close, which are so nice. I would use ESOL strategy 6 and continually monitor the student‘s comprehension as they read this story. I would use UDL 2.1 to help them clarify the vocabulary.

“So Peppe lit the street lamps once again, pretending with all his might that each one was a small flame of promise for tomorrow like it used to be”

The illustrations in this book perfectly accompany the beautiful written words in this story.

This is the story about a young boy who lives in Little Italy. He lives with his father and his many sisters so he hast to find work to help sustain his family. He has bad luck at trying to find a job but ends up getting a job as the towns lamplighter. When his job help save his little sister, he earned the respect of his entire family despite it not being the most glamorous position in the world.

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Peppe becomes a lamplighter to help support this immigrant family. His papa disapproves until he saves his little sister and then earns the respect of his whole family.

“Light the lamps. You make me proud.”

I really like the illustrations in this book.

Peppe the Lamplighter is a story about a boy who was looking for work to help his family. He finds a job as a lamplighter. His father is disappointed until it becomes “the best job in America.”

The boy looking everywhere for work. Great illustrations!

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There is a boy who is a lamp lighter for a living, his dad isn‘t proud until lamp lighting becomes “the best job in America”

“You scare the dark away”
This whole first piece of the page is so adorable and meaningful because this whole time Peppe has be discouraged about his job he didn‘t realize how important it was to others! It just goes to show that the work you do does not go unnoticed by others and can actually help them a lot more than you realize!

These illustrations are incredibly realistic!!

Published in 1993 and illustrated by Ted Lewin, this historical fiction book tells the story of families immigrating from Italy to America to start a life. This story incorporates the struggle of immigrants finding work and how important that work is to them. It also has a softer side to the story that makes you feel for the characters!

This historical fiction book is a Caldecott Honor that tells the story of a young boy in an immigrant family. His family is financially struggling in New York City and so Peppe goes to look for work. He gets the opportunity to light the street lamps for the man since he‘s leaving. His dad does not seem pleased by the employment and makes sure his son knows. #UCFLAE3414SP18 this would make for a great storytelling activity and maybe even a dress up

Is like a hidden treasure finding these old check out slips!