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BOOKS 3C THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2015 WHAT ARE THEY READING? Sharing makes holiday brighter Children’s booN starts out sad, ends in joy By TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER Special to The Daily Astorian M ama says you’d better share your toys. But you don’t mind; it’s Christmas and as long as other Nids are careful, they can play with your new gifts, too. Sharing is one of the best things about the holidays, as you Nnow, and in the new booN “Miracle on 133rd Street” by Sonia Manzano, illustrated by Marjorie Priceman, it could maNe your holiday brighter. It was Christmastime, and Jose’s family had the “tiniest Christmas tree ever.” There was hardly room for all the family’s ornaments. Their apartment was small, too, and Mami said the oven was too tiny for the Christmas roast, which made Papi sad. Sonia Manzano He wished they’d never left Puerto Rico. Everything was bigger there. But how do you cooN a great big roast? Jose had an idea, Papi put the roast in a great big box, and they set out for Regular Ray’s Piz- zeria. They were barely out the door, when their neighbor, Mrs. Whitman, complained about the noise. On the third floor, Mr. and Mrs. Santia- go mentioned that their chil- dren weren’t coming to visit this Christmas. Mr. FranNlin thought there were burglars in the building, and he re- fused to come out of his apartment. The WozensNys on the second floor were worried about money, Ms. Simon was yelling about shopping, and the DiPalma Nids were maNing a huge racNet. Even the customers at Happy Full Tummy Food Store seemed very unhappy. Three hours later, though, the great big roast had been cooNed in a great big pizza oven and the scent was “most glorious … so garlicNy and olive oily and delicious …” It smelled so yummy that Jose felt liNe he was floating on its perfect, tasty goodness. “Feliz Navidad,” said Mr. Ray as Jose and Papi headed home — but not be- fore they invited Mr. Ray to share their meal. They invited the WozensNys on the second floor, and they asNed Mr. FranNlin to leave his apartment. Mrs. Whit- man came, too, and so did the Santiagos. Each person brought a little something to Jose’s apartment. And that was where a BOOK REVIEW “Miracle on 133rd Street,” by Sonia Manza- no, illustrated by Marjorie Priceman Simon & Schuster, 48 pages, 2015 $17.99 miracle occurred … The first guest arrives at your holiday celebra- tion. Then the second, fifth, eighth, and 10th, and your child might wonder if there’ll be enough for this crowd. The answer, of course, is yes and “Miracle on 133rd Street” will show him how. There’s always room for one more, as author and Emmy Award-winning ac- tress Manzano proves in this sweet little story that starts out sad and ends in such joy that you won’t be able to stop smiling. The ingenuity of Jose and his papi boost this tale in a per- fect way, and I loved how Manzano subtly portrays a multi-level, multi-cultured apartment building and the “Miracle on 133rd Street” people inside it. Add in magical, sparNling pictures by Priceman and you’ve got an instant holiday classic. Though this booN is mainly for 4-to-8-year-olds, I thinN slightly younger children might sit still for it. One read-through or bed- time read-aloud, and your Nids will agree that “Mir- acle on 133rd Street” is a good story to share. Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading since she was 3 years old and she nev- er goes anywhere without a book. She lives on a hill in Wisconsin with two dogs and 14,000 books. Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Many of the old glass tiles are broken, chipped, or simply missing from the sidewalk outside of several buildings in downtown Astoria. Glass tiles: City ordinance limits Boyd’s creativity in the process Continued from Page 1C Sidewalk politics Boyd said she has been limited in her creativity by a city ordinance requir- ing replacement tiles to be historically accurate. Jeff FREE PUBLISHED THE FIRST FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH January 2015 ess Chronicling the Joy of Busin Daly, a native Astorian, photographer, ¿ lmmaNer and local organizer, said the ordinance was created in response to a plan he had about four years ago to re- place the tiles for free and light up city streets. in the Columbia-Pacific Region striverbusinessjournal crbizjournal.com • facebook.com/coa Volume 10 • Issue 1 stry spo allenges Inside: Indu copes with ch Shellfish farm an conditions oce nging s optimistic despite cha tlight: Taylor remain NEWS County makes a splash PacifIc in the pot biz page 10 Daly said he had gath- ered a group of high school students and tooN a census of the state of vault lights in Astoria. The plan, he said, was to place a layer of Lex- an polycarbonate plastic in the holes of missing tiles. The remaining space would then be ¿ lled with leftover glass “teardrops” from Fern- hill Glass Studios and do- nated resin from Englund Marine & Industrial Supply to create a smooth transition with the sidewalN. Daly, who has worNed on underground lighting at the Hotel Elliott, said he imag- ined underground lights coming out of the sidewalNs through the fog at night. “It would looN so awesome, the lit street of Astoria, ” he said. Now inserted into The Daily Astorian and Chinook Observer For more information call 503-325-3211 NEWS Seaside Muffler and Off-Road 21 revs up its reputation page BOAT OF THE MONTH The Sadie out of South Bend, Wash. page 24 crbizjou rn a l.com
