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If ever there were a perfectly written picture book this is the one you should share with your children and students. When a little girl visits her great grandfather for the first time she is told to pick something she likes and her grandfather would tell her about it. So she chooses a cigar box filled with matchboxes. In each matchbox is a memory from when he was little. He wanted to write a diary, but didn't know how to write, so he put in an object to remember the time. It starts with his journey from Italy to America.I can see this used in many writing exercises to get the kids motivated to tell their own stories. I read this to my five year old grandson and he was intrigued by the idea. So we went off in search of our own matchboxes.
The illustrator Bagram Ibatoulline captures the authors words with beautiful acrylic gouache illustrations.
Candlewick Press $16.99 all ages
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