Growing up in a poor family, Peppe decides to take on a job as a lamplighter, lighting up the streets of Little Italy, but his father is not impressed by such a lowly job, until one evening, things take a dramatic change and Peppe receives his due respect. Reprint. Caldecott Honor Book.

Growing up in a poor family, Peppe decides to take on a job as a lamplighter, lighting up the streets of Little Italy, but his father is not impressed by such a lowly job, until one evening, things take a dramatic change and Peppe receives his due respect. Reprint. Caldecott Honor Book.