Me and Momma and Big John

By Mara Rockliff

Subjects: Building, fiction, Stone-cutters, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Mothers and sons, JUVENILE FICTION / Art & Architecture, JUVENILE FICTION / Lifestyles / City & Town Life, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Issues), Building, Fiction, Children's fiction, Picture books for children, Cathedrals, Stonecutters, Juvenile fiction, Mothers and sons, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.)

Description: Little John is proud of his mother's work as a stonecutter for a cathedral called "Big John," but struggles to understand the importance of spending so much time on one stone that no one will know Momma cut. Includes a history of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine.