How I Became an American
translated by James Skofield
Regina
had put away her embroidery, taken an old, broken-down boot that she had
scoured clean, and placed it on a newspaper she had laid on the table.
She was decorating the boot with a red and blue bow.
"What
on earth are you doing to that boot?" asked Mama, astonished.
"It's
an antique. I'm going to hang it on the wall. It's all the fashion."
"What
foolishness," Tata said and smiled.
"You
have to follow every fashion, Regina? Every folly!" Mama said, but
she meant no harm.
Regina
hung the boot on the wall in our bedroom. Now we're fashionable and
antique at the same time.
James Skofield is a translator, writer,
and librettist who has been the recipient of many grants and prizes. He
lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.
Cricket Books, Chicago
Hard cover, EUR 19,14 ($ 15.95)
ISBN 0-8126-4875-7
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
2002,
Notable Children´s
Book 2002
Dieses Buch ist auch in Deutschland
erhältlich.
Es existiert in leicht geänderter Fassung auch auf Deutsch.
