More specifically, on the basis of 23 (out of 28) species and three mitochondrial genes, Santini and Polacco [ 20] proposed a first hypothesis concerning the lifestyle and origin of the ancestral clownfish.
Later, Anna's mother takes down "a magnificent china tea set" — along with Anna's bright red babushka, one of the few colored objects in Polacco's detailed pencil drawings — so that the family can celebrate the Sabbath.
The law says Alitalia would have to go through a procedure similar to bankruptcy in order to split itself in two and have its debt stay with one half, says Edoardo Staunovo Polacco, a lawyer who specialises in bankruptcy.
Ms. Krieger has turned Lendormy, an adult collaborator barely mentioned in Ms. Polacco's book, into a neighbor boy whom the Nazis have seduced into joining the Hitler Youth.
$17.99.(Picture book; ages 3 to 7) Polacco's books ("The Junkyard Wonders") are often classroom staples, but this one is a very homespun tale.
Her father is an accountant specializing in tax and financial planning at Hochberg, Addeo & Polacco, an accounting firm in Eatontown, N.J.
Now Ms. Polacco's work has been brought to the stage — it is playing in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens — as the latest production from Making Books Sing, an organization turning children's literature into musicals.
An eternal story of a child's simultaneous longing for the comforts of a grandmother's Old Blue Chair and the desire "to see the sky," Polacco's old-fashioned tale is imbued with familial warmth and familiarity.
Monsieur Marks, a Jewish shopkeeper who appears only briefly in Ms. Polacco's text, is here a full-fledged character, and Lendormy, an adult neighbor, has become Henri Lendormy Joe Grandyy), an impressionable boy in the Hitler Youth.
The girls' entwined histories first appeared in Ms. Polacco's book "The Butterfly" (Philomel, 2000), and they have come to the stage through Making Books Sing, which turns literary works for the young into musicals.
