Let Liberty Rise!: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty
Title | Let Liberty Rise!: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty PDF eBook |
Author | Chana Stiefel |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2021-03-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1338782665 |
How did 121,000 Americans save their most beloved icon? Here is an inspiring story about the power we have when we all work together! "All rise to this evocative, empowering offering." -- Kirkus Reviews On America's 100th birthday, the people of France built a giant gift! It was one of the largest statues the world had ever seen -- and she weighed as much as 40 elephants! And when she arrived on our shores in 250 pieces, she needed a pedestal to hold her up. Few of America's millionaires were willing to foot the bill. Then, Joseph Pulitzer (a poor Hungarian immigrant-cum-newspaper mogul) appealed to his fellow citizens. He invited them to contribute whatever they could, no matter how small an amount, to raise funds to mount this statue. The next day, pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters poured in. Soon, Pulitzer's campaign raised enough money to construct the pedestal. And with the help of everyday Americans (including many thousands of schoolchildren!) the Statue of Liberty rose skyward, torch ablaze, to welcome new immigrants for a life of freedom and opportunity! Chana Stiefel's charming and immediate writing style is perfectly paired with Chuck Groenink's beautiful, slyly humorous illustrations. Back matter with photographs included.
The Statue of Liberty
Title | The Statue of Liberty PDF eBook |
Author | Lucille Recht Penner |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 33 |
Release | 2010-05-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0307560147 |
Over 125 years ago our beloved Statue of Liberty made its way to New York Harbor. This Step 2 non-fiction reader uses illustrations and photographs to tell the story of how Lady Liberty was sculpted, transported from France, unveiled, and made into an American icon.
There's a Rat in My Soup
Title | There's a Rat in My Soup PDF eBook |
Author | Chana Stiefel |
Publisher | Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Pages | 49 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1464604452 |
Eat like a king. Sit down to a meal of eagle, peacock, green-dyed eggs, stuffed pig's stomach, and blood gravy. Medieval royalty would eat giant feasts filled with strange and exotic dishes. Readers join in on the fun and find out what food was like during the Middle Ages in this reluctant reader book.
The Great Kosher Meat War Of 1902
Title | The Great Kosher Meat War Of 1902 PDF eBook |
Author | Scott D. Seligman |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2020-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1640124101 |
2020-21 Reader Views Literary Award, Gold Medal Winner 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal Winner 2020 National Jewish Book Award, Finalist 2020 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Finalist in the U.S. History category 2020 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Finalist In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Convinced by the latest jump in the price of kosher meat that they were being gouged, they assembled in squads of five, intent on shutting down every kosher butcher shop in New York's Jewish quarter. What was conceived as a nonviolent effort did not remain so for long. Customers who crossed the picket lines were heckled and assaulted and their parcels of meat hurled into the gutters. Butchers who remained open were attacked, their windows smashed, stock ruined, equipment destroyed. Brutal blows from police nightsticks sent women to local hospitals and to court. But soon Jewish housewives throughout the area took to the streets in solidarity, while the butchers either shut their doors or had their doors shut for them. The newspapers called it a modern Jewish Boston Tea Party. The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 tells the twin stories of mostly uneducated women immigrants who discovered their collective consumer power and of the Beef Trust, the midwestern cartel that conspired to keep meat prices high despite efforts by the U.S. government to curtail its nefarious practices. With few resources and little experience but steely determination, this group of women organized themselves into a potent fighting force and, in their first foray into the political arena in their adopted country, successfully challenged powerful, vested corporate interests and set a pattern for future generations to follow.
Daddy Depot
Title | Daddy Depot PDF eBook |
Author | Chana Stiefel |
Publisher | Feiwel & Friends |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2017-05-16 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1250167574 |
Come to Daddy Depot: The Dad Megastore! From Acrobats to Zookeepers, we have the perfect dad for you! Exchange your old dad for a brand-new one . . . TODAY! Lizzie loves her dad, but he tells the same old jokes, falls asleep during story time, and gets distracted by football while Lizzie does her ballet twirls. When she sees an ad for a store called Daddy Depot, she decides to check it out—and finds dads of all kinds! Will Lizzie find the perfect dad? Join her on this sweet and silly adventure that celebrates fathers with lots of love.
The Caiman
Title | The Caiman PDF eBook |
Author | María Eugenia Manrique |
Publisher | Amazon Crossing Kids |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2021-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781542031585 |
The unforgettable story of a man and his alligator. When Faoro the clockmaker adopts a baby alligator, he has no idea that someday their story will travel far and wide. But the town of San Fernando de Apure would never forget this kind young man and his adoring alligator, who played with the neighborhood children, took part in Faoro's wedding, and, eventually, mourned his loss. Now their story is being shared with the world. In this delightful picture book first published in Venezuela, the author brings us back to her own childhood in Venezuela, as one of the children who used to visit this famous caiman, to tell the story of a man who loved animals and how his friendship with his alligator sparked a lasting legacy.
My Name Is Wakawakaloch!
Title | My Name Is Wakawakaloch! PDF eBook |
Author | Chana Stiefel |
Publisher | HMH Books For Young Readers |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | JUVENILE FICTION |
ISBN | 1328732096 |
Angry that everyone bungles her name, Neanderthal Wakawakaloch speaks with her parents and Elder Mooch, who remind her that she was named for a brave, heroic ancestor.