The Little Chapel That Stood

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|author = A. B. Curtiss

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|illustrator = Mirto Golino

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|country = United States

|language = English

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|subject = September 11th

|genre = Children's Picture book

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|published = 2003, Oldcastle Publishing

|media_type = Print

|pages = 40 pages

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The Little Chapel That Stood is a 2003 children's picture book with verses by A. B. Curtiss and pictures by Mirto Golino.{{cite news|title=The Little Chapel That Stood: Remembering 9/11|url=http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2011/09/the_little_chapel_that_stood_remembering_911.html|newspaper=Education Week|date=10 September 2011 |accessdate=23 November 2014|last1=Dewitt |first1=Peter }} It tells the story of the September 11 attacks by focusing on St. Paul's Chapel, a historic chapel which is located less than {{convert|100|yd|m}} from the destroyed Twin Towers; the chapel survived intact and became a haven for rescue workers in the days after the attacks.{{cite news|url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0209/st_pauls/online_extra.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080121115641/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0209/st_pauls/online_extra.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 21, 2008|title=Sanctuary at Ground Zero|date=September 2, 2002|work=National Geographic|accessdate=30 November 2014}}{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/11/the-little-chapel-that-stood-marks-911/|title='The Little Chapel that Stood' Marks 9/11|date=September 11, 2014|agency=Associated Press|work=Washington Times|accessdate=30 November 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.911memorial.org/catalog/little-chapel-stood.html|title=The Little Chapel that Stood|work=Museum Store, 9/11 Memorial|accessdate=30 November 2014|archive-date=4 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204214652/https://www.911memorial.org/catalog/little-chapel-stood.html|url-status=dead}} The book's cover features a watercolor painting by Mirto Golino that depicts the chapel surrounded by high rises in Manhattan in 2001, including the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center. The title is a nod to the children's picture-book classic The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/09/11/how-to-teach-the-sept-11-terrorist-attacks-to-young-people/|title=How to teach the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to young people|last=Strauss|first=Valerie|date=September 11, 2013|newspaper=Washington Post|accessdate=30 November 2014}}

The book has been used in schools{{cite web|url=http://www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/911/curriculum/esu4l10.pdf|title=Lesson EIV-10 A Poem about St. Paul's Chapel: "The Little Chapel That Stood"|work=New Jersey State Board of Education|accessdate=30 November 2014}} and is recommended as a way to introduce a difficult topic to children for discussion.{{cite web|url=http://amhistory.si.edu/ourstory/pdf/sept11/sept11_reading.pdf|title=Reading guide: The Little Chapel that Stood|work=Our Story: September 11, 2001|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=30 November 2014}}{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rocco-staino/911-books-kids-teens_b_926274.html|title=10 Books on September 11 to Share with Kids|work=Huffington Post|accessdate=30 November 2014}} The nickname "Little Chapel that Stood" has become a general way to refer to the building.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/arts/music/bach-at-one-and-pipes-at-one-at-trinitys-st-pauls-chapel.html|title=Keeping Up the Spirit of Bach and Carrying On|last=Oestreich|first=James R.|date=October 7, 2012|work=New York Times|accessdate=30 November 2014}}{{cite news|title=Prayers, Bells at NYC's "Little Chapel That Stood"|url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/St-Paul-Chapel-911-September-11-Stood-Ground-Zero-169326016.html|last=Dobnik|first=Verena|date=September 11, 2012|work=NBC New York|accessdate=1 December 2014}}