Madlenka

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A trip around a city block is like a trip around the world! Peeking out through a diecut window on the jacket, Madlenka invites the reader to enter her world. And what a world it is! On the surface, it looks like an ordinary city block, but as we meet Madlenkas neighbors the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian icecream man, the Latin American grocer, a retired opera singer from Germany, an African American school friend, and the Asian shopkeeper and look through diecut windows to the images and memories they have carried from old country to new, we can see that Madlenkas block is as richly varied as its inhabitants. And why is Madlenka going around the block, jumping for joy? Her tooth is loose, and she wants everyone to know!

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