num_pages: 32
description: Growing up on the Lower East Side, Lionel knows only a tiny tenement apartment and a few crowded streets. He scribbles drawings on every available scrap of paper but doesn’t think much of them—until he takes a momentous streetcar journey to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, he finds that the world is a wider and more exciting place than he could have imagined. With gentle humor and fondness, Sharon Reiss Baker tells a story based on her own family history. Evocative paintings by Beth Peck help capture both the safe familiarity of home and the glorious liberation of discovering the world beyond it.
language: English
title: A Nickel, A Trolley, A Treasure House
titlecomplete: A Nickel, A Trolley, A Treasure House
genres: Picture Books
ratings_count: 18
publisher: Viking Juvenile