Peppe the Lamplighter

Elisa Bartone First published 1993

About this book

Peppe's father is upset when he learns that Peppe has taken a job lighting the gas street lamps in his New York City neighborhood.

Subjects

  • age:max:8
  • age:min:4
  • award:caldecott_award
  • brothers and sisters
  • brothers and sisters, fiction
  • caldecott medal
  • children of immigrants
  • children's fiction
  • collectionid:caldecotthonor90
  • families
  • fathers and sons
  • father-son relationship
  • fiction
  • gas street lamps
  • grade:max:3
  • grade:min:preschool
  • italian americans
  • italian americans, fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • lamplighters
  • lexile:570
  • lexile_code:ad
  • lexile_range:501-600
  • lighting
  • missing children
  • new york (n.y.), fiction
  • parental acceptance
  • parent and child, fiction
  • siblings
  • single-parent families
  • streets