Damian Curran's Reviews > All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel

Absolutely fantastic book that I have read alongside a few other books in understanding the poignant issues of immigration. Part of the work I have been doing over the past month is looking at the different ways in which children can understand such important issues such as the refugee crisis and also immigration - further to that the reasons as to why many do leave their home country. I chose a few books to look at different authors interpretations of portraying this to children and I think Dan Yaccarino has done this extremely well. Story follows the author's Great Grandfather arriving, as many did, to Ellis Island in New York. Text is simple to understand and the illustrations are just great. Great book for getting children to talk about life stories, heritage and finding out where they came from.
Plus the advice from his parents 'Work hard, but remember to enjoy life, and never forget your family' - this is a quote that I have saved and will have it on my wall! Just fantastic!