Jimmy loved everything about visiting Grandpa, especially the statue in the park. Grandpa would tell the wonderful story of how Jimmy's great-great-great-grandfather started the town of New Hope because his axle broke. Full-color acrylic illustrations.
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In his first time out as a writer, Sorensen (illustrator of I Love You As Much) speaks volumes about the growth of America, family lineage and national pride with a fluid tale about the founding of a Midwestern town. When Jimmy inquires about a statue in New Hope's park, Grandpa tells him about Lars Jensen, a Danish immigrant who arrived in New York City in 1885 with his wife and two children and "took a train to Minnesota." An axle on their covered wagon breaks on the journey further west, and the family decides to settle on the spot. After building his family a cabin and planting crops, Lars builds a rustic ferry across the nearby river. Soon merchants set up shop, and before long "New Hope became a busy, bustling place." And Grandpa, it turns out, is the great-grandson of Lars, whose statue honors his achievements. Adding scope and atmosphere to Sorensen's straightforward, affecting narrative are vigorous acrylic paintings. Whether depicting the port of Old New York, burgeoning New Hope or a blacksmith's smoky workplace, these true-to-life images fairly rise off the pages. Ages 5-up.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Ages 4^-8. It's the archetypal immigration story: a small boy asks his grandfather how his great-great-great-grandfather Lars came with his family from Denmark more than 100 years ago "to start a new life in America." Powerful double-page-spread paintings show how Lars and his family land in New York, take a train to Minnesota, and set off in a wagon to find a home. The Indians are gone; there's just a mention of Sitting Bull in the tales around the campfire on the wagon trail. When the wagon axle breaks near the banks of a river, Lars decides to stop there. Soon others join him, work and community grow, the railroad comes, and now there's a thriving town. In the style of Ted Lewin, the realistic portraits of the pioneer family are set against light-filled views of the wide plains and then scenes of the crowded streets. Many kids will want to go from here to their own family stories of coming to America. Hazel Rochman
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