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Madlenka by Peter Sis
“Peeking out through a die-cut window on the jacket, Madlenka invites the reader to enter her world. And what a world it is! On the surface, it looks like an ordinary city block, but as we meet Madlenka's neighbors — the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the Latin American grocer, a retired opera singer from Germany, an African American school friend, and the Asian shopkeeper — and look through die-cut windows to the images and memories they have carried from old country to new, we can see that Madlenka's block is as richly varied as its inhabitants.”
Taken from Amazon.
See also:
http://www.petersis.com/content/madlenka.html
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/peter-sis
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/982432.Madlenka
http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-374-39969-6
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Madlenka [Printed text] / Peter Sis. — 1st. ed. — New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [2010].
[48] : ill. ; 26cm — (SquareFish).
ISBN 978-0-312-65912-7-50699
PZ 7 .S541 M3 2010
R. 201162133
