Under the Lemon Moon by Edith Hope Fine
	List Price:   $8.95 Unit Price:   $7.16 You Save:   $1.79 (20%) ISBN-10:   1584300515 ISBN-13:   9781584300519 Publisher:   Lee & Low Books Category:   Math Books, Apples - Zucchini Pub. Date:   April 2002 Pages:   32 Format:   Trade Paper Ages:   4 and UP
Awards
1984  Caldecott Medal  Nominee/Honoree  2001  Black-Eyed Susan Book Award  Nominee/Honoree  2000  R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature  Winner!  2002  Young Hoosier Book Award  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
CHILDREN
Description/Notes
When Rosalinda is awakened by a noise in the family's garden, she sees a man creeping away with a sack of fruit from her beloved lemon tree. Rosalinda seeks out La Anciana for advice. The wise woman offers an inventive way to help the tree and the man driven to steal her lemons. A 'Parents' Choice' Silver Honor Award winner. Full-color illustrations. Set in the Mexican countryside, this story teaches a lesson in generosity and forgiveness. After a thief takes all the fruit from Rosalinda's beloved lemon tree, she calls on La Anciana, a wise old woman, to help her cure the ailing tree. When she discovers that the thief has sold her lemons to feed his hungry family, Rosalinda is able to see things with a new perspective. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.