A Nickel, A Trolley, A Treasure House

By Sharon Reiss Baker

Book Overview

Growing up on the Lower East Side, Lionel knows only a tiny tenement apartment and a few crowded streets. He scribbles drawings on every available scrap of paper but doesn?t think much of them?until he takes a momentous streetcar journey to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, he finds that the world is a wider and more exciting place than he could have imagined. With gentle humor and fondness, Sharon Reiss Baker tells a story based on her own family history. Evocative paintings by Beth Peck help capture both the safe familiarity of home and the glorious liberation of discovering the world beyond it.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067005982X
• ISBN13: 9780670059829
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Viking Juvenile
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.2" x 0.4" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 5 years and up
• Grade Range: Kindergarten and higher