num_pages: 44
description: In New Orleans there lived a man who saw the streets as his calling and he swept them clean. He danced up one avenue and down another and everyone danced along. The old ladies whistled and whirled. The old men hooted and hollered. The barbers bead twirlers and beignet bakers bounded behind that one-man parade. But then came the rising Mississippiand a storm greater than anyone had seen before. In this heartwarming book about a real garbage man Phil Bildner and John Parra tell the inspiring story of a humble man and the heroic difference he made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Plus this is a fixed-format version of the book which looks nearly identical to the print version.
language: English
title: Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans
publisher: Chronicle Books