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One of School Library Journal’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2011

One of Horn Book’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2011

As a child, Claire Nivola loved summers in Orani, the village where her father grew up and where her many aunts, uncles, and 50 cousins still lived. She ran freely through the town's cobbled streets with packs of cousins, who quizzed her about America while she took in all teh simple joys and pleasures of daily life in a village where surprises met them at every turn.

In this sensuous homage of prose and pictures, Nivola invites readers to share in her experience of Orani, a ...

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One of School Library Journal’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2011

One of Horn Book’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2011

As a child, Claire Nivola loved summers in Orani, the village where her father grew up and where her many aunts, uncles, and 50 cousins still lived. She ran freely through the town's cobbled streets with packs of cousins, who quizzed her about America while she took in all teh simple joys and pleasures of daily life in a village where surprises met them at every turn.

In this sensuous homage of prose and pictures, Nivola invites readers to share in her experience of Orani, a village where surprises met them at every turn and luxuries were unheard of, but life was rich, lived close to the earth.

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The detailed watercolor illustrations evoke a time when family and community reigned supreme in this Sardinian village. One could say it was a simpler time, but there is nothing simple about baking bread from scratch, grinding wheat into flour, weddings that lasted three days and three nights, and carrying a coffin up a steep Mediterranean hill. In this story, summer days are filled with quiet treasures: drinking water from a well, roaming cobblestone streets, picking figs from a tall tree, and playing with cousins in the piazza. The author, who spent summers in her father's Sardinian town, lovingly remembers the visits her family made by boat from New York to Orani. She captures well the rhythm and pace of village life, and the beauty of the valley and surrounding mountains. In her note at the back of the book, the author explains how the village has changed over time. Although she still visits, that sheltered world has become much like any other town due to cars, computers and vanishing street life. Readers are lucky that she inhabited this world for a time and remembers it so well in this lovely tale. Reviewer: Jeanne K. Pettenati, J.D.
Kristi Jemtegaard
This shimmering memoir opens a window on the past and invites young readers to climb through it…a graceful reminder to a new generation to remember this time and cherish this place.
—The Washington Post
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Tomie dePaola
…the illustration is the heart and soul and brilliance of this book. Nivola is a consummate artist. The work here is heartbreakingly beautiful, with its depictions of the village's red-tiled roofs and cobbled streets. Its people are alive, and you absolutely know who young Claire is in nearly every spread by her hair, her sandals and her dress…Read the text slowly. Then, let your young "looker" pore over the pictures to find the myriad details that are painted with love and tell a deeper story.
—The New York Times

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780374356576
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publication date: 7/19/2011
  • Pages: 40
  • Sales rank: 424,908
  • Age range: 4 - 8 Years
  • Lexile: NC1080L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 9.20 (w) x 11.20 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Claire Nivola has written and illustrated many books for children, most recently, Planting the Trees of Kenya, an award-winning picture book about Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai. She lives with her husband in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts.

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Orani: My Father's Village

By Claire A. Nivola

Macmillan Children's Publishing Group

Copyright © 2011 Claire A. Nivola
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-374-35657-6

Chapter One

In a sea of breathtaking blue, where dolphins leaped and plunged in play, lay an island. Tucked here and there along the white-pebbled shores were grottoes hung with stalactites. Above, on the rugged cliffs, tiny goats picked their way among the rocks and thistles and wild scented thyme. The fruit on the island tasted like the fruit of paradise, but wild boars roamed the mountains. There were nettles that stung, scorpions with poisonous tails, and bandits who stole sheep and sometimes kidnapped people. In the very heart of the island, in a valley, lay the village of Orani, where my father was born.

Every year or so, my family traveled far across the ocean to Italy. An overnight boat took us from the mainland to the island's port, arriving at dawn.

From there we rode inland, past the scrub oaks and red trunks of the harvested cork trees, past chalky talc cliffs and expanses blackened by brush fires.

How long it took to get there! Hour after hour we drove under a scorching sun, until suddenly the curving road plunged down into the valley, and the houses, low and dark on either side, held us close.

The car stopped abruptly and relatives appeared from all around.

Cousins took me by the hand and led me through the thick-walled houses and out into the courtyards.

Under a fig tree, beside the laundry, among the chickens, they asked, "What is it like in America?"

(Continues...)


Excerpted from Orani: My Father's Village by Claire A. Nivola Copyright © 2011 by Claire A. Nivola. Excerpted by permission of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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