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    The Veterans Day Visitor
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    The Veterans Day Visitor

    By Peter Catalanotto and Pamela Schembri

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    Emily's Pop-Pop is shocked when he hears that Emily and Vincetta Louise don't know what a veteran is. With Veterans Day coming up, he volunteers to talk to their class about the holiday and the people it honors. But Emily is worried. Pop-Pop sometimes falls asleep at the strangest times. What if he falls asleep in front of the whole class? Everyone would laugh!

    Vinni and Emily come up with a plan. With so much to learn, they have to make sure that no one sleeps through this Veterans Day!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateDec 16, 2014
    ISBN9781466887589
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    The Veterans Day Visitor
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    Peter Catalanotto

    PETER CATALANOTTO is the author/illustrator of many books for children, including The Secret Lunch Special, Ivan the Terrier and Matthew A.B.C. He lives with his family in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

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    • 3/5
      When Emily's grandfather Pop-Pop learns that she and her best friend Vinni don't really know what a veteran is, he decides to visit their second-grade classroom in honor of Veterans Day, and share his story. Emily, who loves Pop-Pop, is worried that his narcolepsy will cause him to fall asleep in the middle of his presentation, and that the other students might laugh at him. Fortunately, when this very thing happens, Emily steps in to cover the situation, and all ends well...I happened upon The Veterans Day Visitor while looking for children's stories about Veterans Day, and realizing that it was the third and final book in co-authors Peter Catalanotto and Pamela Schembri's 2nd Grade Friends series, decided to read the first two (The Secret Lunch Special and No More Pumpkins) first. I found the story here, which is inspired by Schembri's own father, quite engaging, and think beginning chapter-book readers will as well. The story could be used to start a classroom discussion about veterans, but also about narcolepsy. The afterword gives more information about Schembri's father, who was quite active in veteran affairs, and who campaigned for the Purple Heart stamp that was eventually produced by the US Postal Service. Recommended to anyone who read and enjoyed the first two entries in this series, and to beginning chapter-book readers looking for stories about veterans and/or Veterans Day.