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From award-winning creators Emily Barth Isler and Vesper Stamper, this luminous and moving story shows what it means to see the world in a hopeful light, even when it is broken
Three pieces of broken glass sit on Grandma Inge's windowsill.
Even though they are small, sharp, and jagged, the light shines through them, casting beautiful rainbows on the wall.
When Inge's great-granddaughter asks why Inge has kept these shards, she learns decades-old stories from her great-grandmother's life-from the joy of glass breaking at her wedding to harrowing reminders of smashed windows during Kristallnacht. And she comes to understand why we hold onto our memories both happy and sad.
Evocative and soul-stirring, and with incandescent illustrations by Vesper Stamper, Three Pieces of Broken Glass-based on the personal history of author Emily Barth Isler-explores how we must seek to find beauty and strength in even the darkest, most broken times. Emily Barth Isler is the award-winning author of the middle grade novels AfterMath and The Color of Sound. Her writing has appeared in Allure, Oprah Daily, O Quarterly, Kveller, Publisher's Weekly, Today.com, and more. As the cofounder of the Burbank Book Festival in Southern California, Isler loves providing opportunities for all kinds of stories to be heard. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two kids. Vesper Stamper is an award-winning author-illustrator of YA historical fiction and picture books. Her debut novel, What the Night Sings, was a Sydney Taylor Book Award winner, a National Book Award nominee, and a National Jewish Book Award finalist. Raised in New York City, Stamper's dreams of one day illustrating the Lower East Side at the turn of the century were fulfilled when she was asked to illustrate Amazing Abe. She teaches illustration at School of Visual Arts and lives with her family in the Northeast.
Three pieces of broken glass sit on Grandma Inge's windowsill.
Even though they are small, sharp, and jagged, the light shines through them, casting beautiful rainbows on the wall.
When Inge's great-granddaughter asks why Inge has kept these shards, she learns decades-old stories from her great-grandmother's life-from the joy of glass breaking at her wedding to harrowing reminders of smashed windows during Kristallnacht. And she comes to understand why we hold onto our memories both happy and sad.
Evocative and soul-stirring, and with incandescent illustrations by Vesper Stamper, Three Pieces of Broken Glass-based on the personal history of author Emily Barth Isler-explores how we must seek to find beauty and strength in even the darkest, most broken times. Emily Barth Isler is the award-winning author of the middle grade novels AfterMath and The Color of Sound. Her writing has appeared in Allure, Oprah Daily, O Quarterly, Kveller, Publisher's Weekly, Today.com, and more. As the cofounder of the Burbank Book Festival in Southern California, Isler loves providing opportunities for all kinds of stories to be heard. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two kids. Vesper Stamper is an award-winning author-illustrator of YA historical fiction and picture books. Her debut novel, What the Night Sings, was a Sydney Taylor Book Award winner, a National Book Award nominee, and a National Jewish Book Award finalist. Raised in New York City, Stamper's dreams of one day illustrating the Lower East Side at the turn of the century were fulfilled when she was asked to illustrate Amazing Abe. She teaches illustration at School of Visual Arts and lives with her family in the Northeast.