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Bunting, Eve

A Picnic in October

32 pp. | Harcourt | October, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-15-201656-2 $$16.00
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. Young narrator Tony laments his Italian-American family's annual fall excursion to the Statue of Liberty: he's cold, their picnic is heavy (it includes Lady Liberty's birthday cake), and his grandparents get "soppy." But pride overrides embarrassment after he encounters three recent immigrants who lift his grandparents' story from abstraction. Accomplished acrylic paintings illustrate the somewhat sentimental story.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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