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MATCHBOX DIARY, THE 
Author:   Paul Fleischman  
Illustrator:   Bagram Ibatoulline  
RRP:   $27.95
Online Price :  $25.16
10+ Copy Price :  $23.76         
Format:   Hardback 
Type of Book:   Overseas Picture Book 
ISBN:   9781406343779
Category:   Historical
Migration
Italy
Poverty
Family Life
Grandparents
Diary
Resilience
Relationships
Published:   18/12/2012
Status:   Subject To Availability
This title has not been ordered recently, therefore the availability with the publisher is unknown. This title is likely to be available, publishers will either supply stock immediately or provide a status report. This title can be ordered.


DESCRIPTION:

When a little girl visits her great-grandfather at his curio-filled home, she chooses an unusual object to learn about: an old cigar box. What she finds inside surprises her: a collection of matchboxes making up her great-grandfather's diary, containing objects she can hold in her hand, each one evoking a memory. Together they tell of his journey from Italy to a new country, before he could read and write - the olive stone his mother gave him to suck on when there wasn't enough food; a hairpin he found on the boat; a ticket still retaining the thrill of his first baseball game. With a narrative entirely in dialogue, Paul Fleischman makes immediate the two characters' foray into the past. With warmth and an uncanny eye for detail,



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