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Bartoletti, Susan

The Christmas Promise

40 pp. | Scholastic/Blue Sky | November, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-590-98451-9 $$15.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by David Christiana. It's the 1930s, and the narrator rides the rails with her father, who's looking for work. After she's left at a foster home, she fears that Poppa won't return by Christmas. Bartoletti and Christiana, who only strays from an industrial-toned palette when depicting symbols of affluence, expertly use period details to bring to life both the Great Depression and an unusual father-daughter bond.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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