![]() ![]() ![]() Through simple, tender text, readers learn the life-affirming story of a Callery pear tree that grew and today still flourishes “at the foot of the towers.” The author eloquently describes the pre-9/11 life of the “Survivor Tree” and its heartening, nearly decadelong journey to renewal following its recovery from the wreckage of the towers’ destruction. ![]() 5-9)Ī remarkable tree stands where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once soared. Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s Kids On Strike (2003) and The Journal of Finn Reardon: A Newsie (2003) are excellent resources for readers who want to read more about the newsies. Unfortunately, Brown’s narrative makes a hero out of Kid Blink without considering, in the text or author’s note, accusations that Kid Blink later betrayed the movement. Students might enjoy tracking down sources listed in the bibliography, including newspaper accounts from 1899 and Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives. Readers and listeners will appreciate the lively writing and the humorous, dramatic illustrations. Brown’s cartoon illustrations are a perfect complement to the text, the signature hollow-eyed, potato-headed characters dramatic in their defiance of the owners of The World and The Journal. Hearst decided to make New York City newsies pay a penny more for each stack of papers to sell, Kid Blink, Race Track Higgins, Crutch Morris, and others led a strike they would stop sales until the price was rolled back. ![]()
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