Jemmy Button by Barzelay, Alix

Jemmy Button (#0579NF9)

by Barzelay, Alix; illustrated by Uman, Jennifer
Hardcover Templar Publishing, 2013
Dewey: -Fic-; Audience: Upper Elementary; Reading Level: 4.9
Description: 48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 31 cm

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Product Overview
From Follett
Provides a fictionalized account of Jemmy Button, a native boy from Tierra del Fuego who was brought to London to be educated and then returned home to his island.
From the Publisher
A beautiful collaboration based on a true story.

Jennifer Uman and Valerio Vidali discovered a mutual interest in this story and overcame language obstacles with the help of translators. Jemmy Button, a native of Tierra del Fuego, was brought to England in the mid-1800s to be "educated and civilized." The book illustrates Jemmy's adventures in England, his extraordinary encounters, his homesickness and experiences as an outsider in a strange land, and his return home.
Product Details
  • Publisher: Templar Publishing
  • Publication Date: March 26, 2013
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Dewey: -Fic-
  • Classifications: Fiction
  • Description: 48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 31 cm
  • Tracings: Uman, Jennifer, illustrator. ; Vidali, Valerio, 1983- illustrator.
  • ISBN-10: 0-7636-6487-1
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-7636-6487-9
  • LCCN: 2012-942662
  • Follett Number: 0579NF9
  • Reading Level: 4.9
  • Audience: Upper Elementary