Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen; Illustrated by Daniel Mark Duffy
	List Price:   $17.99 Unit Price:   $14.39 You Save:   $3.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   0688162797 ISBN-13:   9780688162795 Publisher:   HarperCollins Edition:   Revised, illustrated Category:   Beginning Readers Pub. Date:   October 1998 Pages:   32 Format:   Hardcover Ages:   7 to 10 Grades:   ps to 3
Awards
1978  Newbery Medal  Winner!  1986  Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award  Winner!  1980  Mark Twain Award  Nominee/Honoree  1987  Flicker Tale Children's Book Award  Nominee/Honoree  1987  Children's Book Award (Colorado) (USA)  Winner!
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
This Thanksgiving classic is based on the true experience of a member of Barbara Cohen's family, and tells of how recent immigrant Molly leads her third grade class to discover that it takes all kinds of pilgrims to make a Thanksgiving. The mother of a Russian immigrant girl makes her child a pilgrim doll modeled on herself, a modern-day pilgrim. Sparkling new illustrations refresh this Thanksgiving classic based on the true experience of a member of Barbara Cohen's family. The touching story tells how recent immigrant Molly leads her third-grade class to discover that it takes all kinds of pilgrims to make a Thanksgiving. Originally published in 1983, Molly's Pilgrim inspired the 1986 Academy Award winning live-action short film. Molly and her parents are a Jewish family who have emigrated from Russia to the United States to escape religious persecution. When Thanksgiving arrives, the teacher assigns a project to make a Pilgrim doll. Molly's mother helps her make a doll but dresses her in Russian clothes. This special doll teaches Molly's classmates that there are all kinds of pilgrims. Told to make a Pilgrim doll for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly is embarassed when her mother tries to help her out by creating a doll dressed as she herself was dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom.