Bells of Christmas, The |
Publication Information
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Author: Hamilton, Virginia |
Illustrator: Davis, Lambert |
Title: Bells of Christmas, The |
Date: 1989 |
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
City: New York |
ISBN, paperback: 0-15-206450-8 |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
Yes |
Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
historical fiction, memoirs/reminiscences
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HSE Descriptor(s):
social studies
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Summary: |
This long picture book may be read slowly, although it is not broken into chapters. It is a reminiscence of an African-American family's celebration of Christmas in the 1890s and is set in the farmlands of Ohio. |
Teaching Ideas: |
Students may want to write their family Christmas or Kwanzaa customs or their own family reminiscences. Teachers may want to initiate discussions on physical handicaps and how our cultural treatment of people with handicaps has (or has not) changed over time. For additional family history books see the Family History Matrix. For additional Ohio history books, see the Ohio History Matrix. |
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