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Peppe the Lamplighter- Candace Carpenter

I chose to write about the additional picture book that we had to read for this week. I read Peppe the Lamplighter. It is a "feel good" multicultural book about a young Italian immigrant living in Little Italy before electricity. Peppe got a job lighting the street lamps to help support his 7 sisters and his sick father. He is so full of hope and just wants the best for his sisters even lighting a lamp in their honor as well as one for his father and his deceased mother. It is a great example of the American Dream and holding on to hope for the future. It also teaches Peppe and his father that all jobs are important and that he should appreciate what Peppe is doing because lighting the lamps helps the people of the community move around after dark as well as helping guide his family members home. In the end Peppe gets the respect of his hard to please father and Peppe once again is able to take pride in lighting the lamps of Little Italy.

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