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Lil Beethoven Publishing is proud to present the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, SO BIG, by Edna Ferber, author of such incredible novels as Show Boat, Giant, Cimarron, and the Ice Palace; all of which were either made into Academy Award nominated movies or Broadway Musicals. SO BIG was the first book to have the rare distinction of being both the best-selling book of the year and win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Additionally, 3 adaptations of SO BIG have been brought to the silver screen.Maybe one of the most overlooked female authors of all-time, Edna Ferber weaves the incredible tale of determination and grit of a gambler's daughter who learns to see others for who they really are; as the novel says so eloquently: either "Emeralds or Wheat." SO BIG follows the life of a young woman, Selina Peake De Jong, who decides to live big city Chicago to become a school teacher in a lonely Dutch farming community. During her stay on a local family farm, she encourages a young Roelf Pool to