A collection of personal stories documents the experience of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island between 1900 and 1925 and is accompanied by a foreword by New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and information about the Oral History Project.
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Lawlor's debut, a picture-book collection of pieces culled from the Ellis Island Oral History Project, is visually and emotionally stunning. In 15 carefully chosen excerpts, immigrants from various ethnic backgrounds recount their reasons for coming to America and describe their feelings about leaving their country, about making the trip or about arriving on a foreign shore; all but two of the narrators were under 20, one only six at the time of their voyages. Whatever the circumstances, each vignette reflects a strong sense of hope. Lawlor's handpainted paper collages are equally powerful. Their haunting images are strikingly set against ecru-colored pages that bear faintly printed motifs from the pictures they border. Spare details-a girl floating past Lady Liberty, a figure literally putting down roots in two lands-capture these travelers' turbulent emotions. This selection gives credence to the reminiscences of an Ellis Island inspector: "In those days there were crying and laughing and singing all the time at Ellis Island." Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 4-6?Begun in 1975, the Ellis Island Oral History Project is an informal collection of interviews with individuals who immigrated to the U.S. through Ellis Island. Short selections?each 1 or 2 paragraphs long?from 15 of those interviews are reprinted here. The subjects were for the most part children when they arrived in the period 1900-1925. One was future Israeli leader Golda Meir. Many of the selections describe the facility itself; others talk of family and feelings. Opposite each remembrance is a striking, childlike, hand-painted collage; both are superimposed on a beige-toned reproduction of the collage picture. This is an attractive offering, but beyond mere browsing it may lack an audience. Other books geared to specific immigrant groups, such as the Hooblers' The Irish American Family Album (1995) and The Italian American Family Album (1994, both Oxford) contain similar information quoted more extensively.?Diane S. Marton, Arlington County Library, VA
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This review is from: I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project (Mass Market Paperback)
This is a book of quotes from Ellis Island immigrants. It's interesting, but you don't really get in to any one person's story enough for it to be dramatic.
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This is a lovely looking book. Both the art and the memoirs of individuals who came to the United States through Ellis Island are arresting. At the same time, there's a certain boredom that comes from reading one snippet after another. Somehow, it seems that this book needs something more in order to work well, though I can see it being used in history classes or writing classes as a book from which students would get ideas for more in-depth work.
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This was a good lesson resource for teaching Ellis Island. My students even made their own pictures after reading this book.
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My first impressions of the new world will always remain etched in my memory, particularly that hazy October morning when I first saw Ellis Island. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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My first impressions of the new world will always remain etched in my memory, particularly that hazy October morning when I first saw Ellis Island. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- In the Shadow of Liberty by Edward Corsi in Back Matter
- Ellis Island by Instructor Books in Front Matter
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- 10 American History Plays for the Classroom (Grades 4-8) by Sarah J. Glasscock on page 71
- Teaching Genre (Grades 4-8): Explore 9 Types of Literature to Develop Lifelong Readers and Writers by Tara McCarthy in Back Matter
- The Complete Home Learning Source Book: The Essential Resource Guide for Homeschoolers, Parents, and Educators Covering Every Subject from Arithmetic to Zoology by Rebecca Rupp on page 553
- The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery by Graeme Base in Back Matter
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