num_pages: 40
description: Pick whatever you like most. Then Ill tell you its story. When a little girl visits her great-grandfather at his curio-filled home she chooses an unusual object to learn about: an old cigar box. What she finds inside surprises her: a collection of matchboxes making up her great-grandfathers diary harboring objects she can hold in her hand each one evoking a memory. Together they tell of his journey from Italy to a new country before he could read and write  the olive pit his mother gave him to suck on when there wasnt enough food; a bottle cap he saw on his way to the boat; a ticket still retaining the thrill of his first baseball game.
language: English
title: The Matchbox Diary
publisher: Candlewick Press