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Wells, Rosemary

 
9781534429772: The Welcome Chair
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ISBN 10: 1534429778 ISBN 13: 9781534429772
Editorial: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2021

Sinopsis

“An eloquent account of the American immigrant experience.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Deserves to become a modern classic.” —BookPage (starred review)
“A resounding welcome to immigrants.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Based in part on a 100-year-old family journal, Rosemary Wells brings to life a story that the diary’s fragile pages tell. It’s the story of a wooden rocking chair handmade in about 1825 by her great-great-grandfather, an immigrant Jewish boy who made his way to America from Germany in the early 1800s.

In 1807, Sam Siegbert is born in southern Germany. Sam’s favorite pastime is carpentry, much to his father’s displeasure. His mother says he has a gift from God in his hands. After moving to America, he builds a wooden chair with the word WILLKOMMEN on the back. The chair’s back panel was later marked with welcomes by four generations of the family in four different languages.

After the family lost track of the old chair, the author created a new life for it among new owners from other corners of the world. All the families who loved the chair came to America, escaping religious conformity, natural disasters, tyrannies, war, and superstition. In its lifetime, the rocking chair, with its earliest word WILLKOMMEN, stood for openness, hospitality, and acceptance to all who owned it or rocked safely in its embrace.

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Rosemary Wells is the author of more than one hundred and twenty books for children in her forty-five-year career, including more than forty about the beloved bunnies, Max and Ruby, who star in their own television show on Nick Jr. She lives in New England. Visit her online at RosemaryWells.com.

Jerry Pinkney (1939–2021) illustrated 100 children’s books, and his work earned the 2010 Caldecott Medal, five Caldecott Honor Medals, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five Coretta Scott King Honors, five New York Times Best Illustrated Book awards, and, in 2006, the Original Art Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators. Jerry Pinkney’s many acclaimed titles included John Henry, Minty, Sam and the Tigers, The Ugly Duckling, and Mirandy and Brother Wind. Find out more at JerryPinkneyStudio.com.

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Editorial
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1534429778
ISBN 13 
9781534429772
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Ilustrador
Pinkney Jerry
Número de páginas
40
Contacto del fabricante
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