Sofia's Stoop Story: 18th Street, Brooklyn

by Maria Laplaca Bohrer

Book Overview

Sofia paints the Brooklyn landscape through her Sunday dialogues with her Italian nana, her Uncle Frankie, and local merchants. As Sofia?s cousins listen to Uncle Frankie recount the events at Ebbets Field from the exhibition game on April 11, 1947, Sofia?s nana sends her on errands down 18th Street to buy cheese, bread, and cannoli for their Sunday dinner. This multicultural story focuses on the intergenerational relationships in an Italian-American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0988529521
• ISBN13: 9780988529526
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Blue Marlin Publications
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3