Our Corner Grocery Store
What's This Book About
A picture book that celebrates local shops and building communities. Anna Maria takes great pleasure and pride in her grandparents’ corner grocery store. Every Saturday she spends the day helping to arrange fruits and vegetables, greet the customers, and keep things neat and tidy. Through her day we meet the neighbors and learn what an important part the corner grocery store plays in the community. Nonno Domenico, Nonna Rosa, and Anna Maria supply more than goods as the steady stream of customers arrives. Lunches are made, news is shared, bargains are purchased, recipes are traded, and cheerful ciaos are called. By the end of a long day, Anna Maria has a true sense of just how wonderful the sights and smells within the store are and how much they mean to everyone. Charmingly illustrated in great detail, Our Corner Grocery Store pays tribute to the small independent grocers who supply color and atmosphere to city streets. Young readers will particularly enjoy finding and naming the wide array of produce, breads, candies, and dry goods that abound in this friendly establishment.
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Joanne Schwartz was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Her first picture book, Our Corner Grocery Store, illustrated by Laura Beingessner, was nominated for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. Her other books include City Alphabet and City Numbers, with photos by Matt Beam, and two Inuit folktales with Cape Dorset elder Qaunaq Mikkigak – The Legend of the Fog, illustrated by Danny Christopher, and Grandmother Ptarmigan, illustrated by Qin Leng. Her most recent book is Pinny in Summer, illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant. Joanne has been a children’s librarian for more than twenty-five years. She lives in Toronto.
Laura Beingessner has illustrated five books for children. School Library Journal has called her artwork “luminous” while Kirkus Reviews has praised it as “enticing.” She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780887768682
- Publication Date
- April 14, 2009
- Publisher
- Tundra Books (NY)
- Page Count
- 32
- Words Per Page
- 33
- Reading Age
- 3 - 7 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2008903011
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 226999075
- Lexile® Level
- AD640L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~P
- ATOS® Book Level
- 4
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 131053
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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