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Activity Book 1 - Games, Arts & Crafts, etc. Silver: Take a Peek with Peek-a-Bear, by Jill Mangel Weisfeld illustrated by Garry Thorburn (Peek-A-Bear Press)īronze: The Oldest Bedtime Story Ever, written and illustrated by Benjamin Morse (Orson & Co)Ĥ.

Gold: ABC, by Santiago Beascoa illustrated by Patricia Geis (Lupita Books) Silver: Count the Sheep to Sleep, by Philippa Rae illustrated by Stéphanie Röhr (Sky Pony Press)īronze: All Hallow’s ABC, written and illustrated by Jenni Kaye (Daring Ink Press) Gold: You Can Count on Gracie, by Joan Harrison (Little Minute Publishing) Rec­om­mend­ed for ages 10 – 13.Silver: Look Left, Look Right, Look Left Again, by Ginger Pate illustrated by Rhett Ransom Pennell (Greene Bark Press)īronze: Words, by Shelley Sleeper designed by Francisco Macias (Simple Steps) Jane Addams, the Hull House, the World’s Fair, the art of Mary Cas­satt, and Chica­go in the 1890s are all intro­duced with inter­est­ing his­tor­i­cal details, how­ev­er, the book will have dif­fi­cul­ty find­ing an audi­ence even among fans of his­tor­i­cal fic­tion. In the end, read­ers know and under­stand the family’s secret but too many oth­er loose ends and dis­con­nects makes this an unsat­is­fy­ing read. While the title sug­gests the main thrust of the book, Polikoff fails to cre­ate any real ten­sion or sus­pense around Sarah’s mother’s secret, and the rev­e­la­tion ends up being rather anti ‑cli­mat­ic.

Despite these extreme­ly trau­mat­ic events, the book lacks dra­ma. The tod­dler Sarah babysits falls to his death from the roof of the apart­ment build­ing and one of her class­mates is acci­den­tal­ly stabbed to death at his own birth­day par­ty in front of her eyes.

Short chap­ters, some only a sin­gle page, are divid­ed into even short­er sec­tions pro­duc­ing a chop­py nar­ra­tive that oft en los­es momen­tum and flu­id­i­ty. Sarah’s world opens up when she starts tak­ing art class­es at Chicago’s Hull House, vol­un­teers for Jane Addams, and vis­its the World’s Columbian Expo­si­tion. Sarah Gold­man is a fif­teen-year-old Jew­ish girl liv­ing in a cramped apart­ment behind her father’s butch­er shop in 1892.