Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers:: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino Diplomacy Caldecott winner Beth Krommes and

Caldecott winner Beth Krommes and Newbery Honor-winning poet Joyce Sidman team up in this singular celebration of a beautiful

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free to roam some of the most beautiful land in America

The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war

Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers:: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino Diplomacy Caldecott winner Beth Krommes andHollywood's Italian American Filmmakers explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity. While some directors have used film to declare their ethnic roots and create an Italian American ''imagined community,'' others have ignored or even denied their background. Jonathan J. Cavallero examines the films of Frank Capra, Martin Scorsese, Nancy Savoca, Francis Ford Coppola,