Calling the Doves/El canto de las palomas - Softcover

Herrera, Juan Felipe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0892391669 ISBN 13: 9780892391660

Publisher: Children's Book Press, 2001

Synopsis

Now available in paperback, poet Juan Felipe Herrera’s bilingual memoir paints a vivid picture of his migrant farmworker childhood. His rich, evocative prose re-creates the joy of eating under the open sky, celebrating at a fiesta with other farm families, and listening to his mother singing Mexican songs and his father calling the doves. A welcome alternative to the usually bleak portrayal of the migrant farmworker experience, this is an inspirational self-portrait of a loving Latino family.” Booklist

About this title

From the Publisher:

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"

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Children's Book Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0892391669
• ISBN 13: 9780892391660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Simmons Elly