Calling the Doves/El Canto De Las Palomas (English and Spanish Edition) - Hardcover
The Mexican-American poet tells the story of his childhood as a migrant farmhand in the fields of California, where his parents taught him a love for life outdoors and handed down the precious gift of poetry.
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Calling the Doves/El canto de las palomas has received:
1997 Ezra Jack Keats Award
Amricas Award Honor Book
1995 Smithsonian Notable Book
Hungry Mind Review's "Children's Books of Distinction" Award
1996 IRA Teachers' Choice
Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice
School Library Journal's "Best Books of 1995"
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1997 Ezra Jack Keats Award
Amricas Award Honor Book
1995 Smithsonian Notable Book
Hungry Mind Review's "Children's Books of Distinction" Award
1996 IRA Teachers' Choice
Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice
School Library Journal's "Best Books of 1995"
Juan Felipe Herrera is one of the most prominent Mexican American poets writing today. The award-winning author of five books of poetry, he is also an actor, a musician, and a popular professor at California State University at Fresno. He lives with his family in Fresno, CA.
Elly Simmons is an internationally-exhibited painter. Her first picture book for Children's Book Press, Magic Dogs of the Volcanoes, by Manilo Argueta, was highly praised for its rich colors and magnificent imagery. She lives with her family in Lagunitas, CA.
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- PublisherChildrens Book Pr
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0892391324
- ISBN 13 9780892391325
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages30
- IllustratorSimmons Elly
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