Peppe the lamplighter /
Making Meaning : Grade 4 Unit 6
by Elisa Bartone ; illustrations by Ted Lewin.
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Center for the Collaborative Classroom : Making Meaning ; Grade 4 Unit 6 .
Wilson's Children, October 2010. Elem. School Library Collection, June 2000. School Library Journal, November 1993. Publisher's Weekly, August 1997. Booklist, February 1998. Horn Book, January 1996. Teacher Librarian, August 2004. Elem. School Library Collection. Caldecott Medal/Honor.
Peppe's father is upset when he learns that Peppe has taken a job lighting the gas street lamps in his New York City neighborhood.
Italian Americans--Fiction. Fathers and sons--Fiction. Brothers and sisters--Fiction. Street lighting--Fiction. Italian Americans--Fiction. Father-son relationship--Fiction. Siblings--Fiction. Streets--Lighting--Fiction. Caldecott honor book.