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

I didn't love the illustration style of this one, and I felt mixed about it overall. It was neat to see the time passing in the family but at the same time it was so clearly autobiographical that it just felt a bit...claustrophobic, for lack of a better word. I appreciated the theme of the shovel throughout and again, because of the very clear memoir nature of this I assume it had to be true that this shovel was well suited to both gardening and scooping, but I found the idea kind of distracting. My three year old seemed to enjoy the story and all the different environments it took place in, but wasn't really attached to it.