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1993년도 Caldecott상을 받은 작품입니다.

이탈리아에서 이민 온 가난한 집안의 소년이 가족의 반대에도 무릅쓰고 길거리의 가스등에 불을 밝히는 일을 합니다. 그러나 피피는 가스등을 밝힘으로서 어둠을 두려워 하는 여자 동생을 어려움에서 구하게 되자 온 가족은 그를 자랑스럽게 여깁니다. 감동적인 줄거리와 아름다운 그림이 어우러진 책입니다.

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What is 하드커버? 양장본이라고도 불리우며, 표지가 단단한 판지로 만들어진 책입니다. 판지를 천이나 가죽으로 감싸기도 합니다. 책의 속지는 일반적으로 중성처리된 종이(Acid-free paper)를 사용해서 잘 변질이 되지 않기 때문에 오랫동안 보관하기에 적합합니다. 이 종류의 책은 더스트 재킷, 또는 더스트 커버로 불리는 표지덮개가 함께 있는 경우가 많습니다. 간혹 내부 속지가 콩기름 코팅이 된 경우 고약한 냄새가 나는 책도 있습니다.

하드커버입니다.






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Edition: Hardcover: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0688102689
ISBN-13: 978-0688102685
책 크기: 23.7cm x 28.6cm



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Book Description
Peppe becomes a lamplighter to help support his immigrant family in turn-of-the-century New York City, despite his papa's disapproval. But when Peppe's job helps save his little sister, he earns the respect of his entire family.


Annotation
Peppe's father is upset when he learns that Peppe has taken a job lighting the gas street lamps in his New York City neighborhood.


Publisher's Weekly
An Italian American boy at the turn of the century becomes a lamplighter to support his family. In PW's words, "The thoughtful, fluid text, while uniquely personal, is universal in scope." Ages 5-up. (Sept.)


School Library Journal
Gr 2-5-- Peppe, a young immigrant, lives in a tenement in Little Italy in the early 1900s. His mother is dead, his father is ill, and the boy must help support his eight sisters. The street lamplighter offers him a temporary job, and Peppe accepts with pride and excitement. His father disapproves, but the girls encourage him. Peppe imagines each light to be ``a small flame of promise for the future'' and makes a wish for those he loves at each lamp. His father's continued disapproval discourages him and makes him so ashamed that one night he gives up. This night, his youngest sister does not come home because she is afraid of the dark. Peppe's father then pleads with him to light the lamps, admitting it is an important job. This is a pleasant story about a boy's aspirations and the values that shape character. The brilliant color illustrations are perfect in capturing the flavor of the neighborhood. They give a strong sense of time and place. The play of light from the streetlamps and kerosene lamps is especially striking, and the composition of each page is so embracing that readers will feel taken in, whether it is an interior scene or a sweeping streetscape. A solid, refreshing selection that can stand on its own, but would be great to use with immigrant studies. --Barbara Peklo Abrahams, Oneida City Schools, Manlius, NY


BookList - Hazel Rochman
"Did I come to America for my son to light the streetlamps?" The harshness of the immigrant family experience is the realistic background for this affecting picture book story set in Little Italy, New York, at the turn of the century. Peppe's mother is dead; his father is too ill to work; and as the only son, Peppe tries to find a job to help support his eight sisters. He's thrilled when he gets work as a lamplighter, but his father rejects him. Peppe gradually loses heart, until one night he doesn't light the lamps--and his little sister, scared of the dark, doesn't come home. Then his father begs Peppe to light the lamps, and the family is reunited. The story's a tearjerker with a happy resolution, but words and pictures give a strong sense of hard times. Lewin's masterly watercolors express the swirling energy of the crowded streets as well as the intimate feelings and interactions of individual people. Both inside the tenement and out in the neighborhood, the background is often dark; and the boy's lighting of the lamps is a powerful image of his dreams, "a small flame of promise" in the night.