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

This book would be appropriate for primary grades. It is about generations of Italian immigrants. This book focuses on family connectedness, it illustrates how families can stay close without physically being together through family heirlooms and sayings. In the classroom, I could use this book as a read-aloud to inform my students of the importance of valuing culture and family. This book runs the risk of portraying the stereotype that Italians are farmers and that Italian families are big. Although these risks exist there are still many benefits of this book. First, is that it demonstrates the power of families sticking together. Additionally, it shows that hard work pays off.