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A Child's Christmas in Brooklyn | 
 enlarge | Author: Frank Crocitto
Publisher: Candlepower
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised
Pages: 108
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1932037004
EAN: 9781932037005
Publication Date: November 8, 2002
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Festivals, food-feasts, families BIG families and the nostalgic draw of old-world tradition A CHILD S CHRISTMAS IN BROOKLYN is THE Italian American Christmas Book. A CHILD S CHRISTMAS IN BROOKLYN, a deceptively dainty little literary morsel, puts Christmas in its proper place in the consciousness of Christmas Italiana, while simultaneously reinvigorating refined literature. The book is crafted as much in its lyric as it is in its appearance which is no mean feat considering the rich watercolor illustrations that evoke many of the scenes described. The narrative slips gracefully from prose poem to comedic scene not over-precious, but true to the awes of childhood. The book is not afraid to uplift, even in the midst of the sometimes dreary world of adults, the spiritual reality that most children learn to write off as "innocence" to be lost.
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A Literary "Christmas Story" February 7, 2005
Choo Choo 62 (Brooklyn NY USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Reading this beautifully packaged book will give you a Proustian experience. Regardless of your age, you will be transported back to the world of your childhood, when the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas was the longest of the year. You will lose that adult reality that the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas doesn't even seem as long as a three day weekend.
In my experience, only Calvin and Hobbes comic strips or Jean Sheperd's memoirs rival Frank Crocitto for being able to bottle the mind of a child from an adult perspective. Everyone who owns this book will probably reread it, possibly every Christmas season.
A wonderful memoir of growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s October 17, 2001
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Frank Crocitto's A Child's Christmas In Brooklyn is a wonderful memoir of growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s. What is particularly striking is not just the wonderful anecdotal stories but the way they are physically and visually laid out for the reader in a line-on-the-page format that is almost lyrically poetic in its presentation. A Child's Christmas In Brooklyn is marvelous reading for any Christmas season and a delight for anytime of the year -- especially for that "window in time" feeling taking us back on a nostalgic tour of Brooklyn through a child's eyes.
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