Description
Michael’s great-great-aunt Dew was a hundred years old, and she kept an old box filled with pennies, one for each birthday. Michael loved to sit at her feet and count out the pennies while Aunt Dew told the story behind each one. Michael’s mother wanted to throw out the old box and buy a new one. But Aunt Dew said, “Anybody takes my hundred penny box, take me.” And for his love for Aunt Dew, Michael knew he had to try to save the hundred penny box that contaiend all the stories of her life.
This Newbery Honor Book tells the story of “a boy and his hundred-year-old great-great-aunt in . . . a quietly intense story, illustrated with sepia pictures that make dramatic use of chiaroscuro” (“The Horn Book”). Two-color illustrations.
Puffin Books
Juvenile Fiction
Family
Edition: Multigenerational, Juvenile Fiction
Keywords: Family
