The Match Box Diary     Blog post Amanda, Sahil and Vickram

Written by Paul Fleischman     

Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline   

Summary   

In this story it looks like they were trying to show a picture of a library in the grandfathers house. The main character in the story is the grandfather as a boy because he tells his granddaughter about his past and by showing her his diary which is a bunch of match boxes with items from his past in them. When he was a boy he was very poor and he lived Italy and when ever he was hungry he told his mom to give him an olive pit to suck on because their was a lot of olive trees their. They went on a boat but they couldn't go on the top because they were poor unlike the rich people on top. Since they had almost no money their father had to leave for work to get money so they didn't get to see him often. When her grandfather was eight years old they finally had enough money to go to school but he didn't want to go so he had an argument  with his mom about whether or not he should go but his mom won and he ended up going to school it was hard for him but he did it and every night he told his sisters what he had learned.            

Our opinion    

We all liked the book three out of three and this is our description  why:              Sahil's opinion

I like the part when the grandfather showed her the matchbox diary and the girl said to the grandfather "you smoke cigars!"I wonder why the men told the passengers that people at their destination  put button hooks in their eyes (a button hook is a tool used for closing up shoes when they didn't have laces)   

Amanda's opinion

I like the book because it tells stories  and gives us information  from the grandfathers past.    

Vickram’s  opinion       

I liked the part when they went to a baseball game in New York.