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Title: Sydney Taylor Award Honor Book for Younger Children
Review: When Jessie Came Across the Sea is a strikingly handsome picture book, an immigration romance with dramatic illustrations setting off sentimental text. The eponymous Jessie, an orphan maid, makes her way in the wide world from shtetl to America where she works hard until Prince Charming comes along. Narrow, sad past blossoms into boundless future in a three-hanky happy ending. For elementary school age children.
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