• Binding Paperback
  • 32 pages
  • Type Picture Book

Calling the Doves/El Canto de

Calling the Doves/El Canto de

by Juan Felipe Herrera

  • Ages 7–10
  • Grades 2–4
  • Fiction or nonfiction Non-Fiction
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Calling the Doves/El Canto de

En este premiado libro ilustrado bilingüe, el poeta laureado de Estados Unidos Juan Felipe Herrera evoca su infancia como hijo de campesinos migrantes mexicanos en California. Con un lenguaje lírico en inglés y español, celebra los desayunos bajo el cielo abierto, las canciones mexicanas en la casita rodante que construyó su padre y las fiestas en las montañas con otras familias. Las canciones y la poesía de su madre, junto con los cuentos de su padre y su canto a las palomas, lo encaminaron a convertirse en poeta. Las radiantes pinturas de Elly Simmons iluminan este cariñoso retrato familiar. Ganador del premio Ezra Jack Keats.

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Calling the Doves

In this award-winning bilingual picture book, U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera recalls his childhood as the son of Mexican migrant farmworkers in California. With lyrical language in both English and Spanish, he celebrates eating breakfast under the open sky, listening to Mexican songs in the little trailer house his father built, and joining other families at mountain fiestas. His mother's songs and poetry and his father's stories and dove calls set him on the path to becoming a poet. Elly Simmons's radiant paintings illuminate this loving self-portrait of family, work, and words. Winner of the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award.
Author & illustrator Spanish book type, author and illustrator
Spanish book type
Bilingual
Author
Juan Felipe Herrera
Author origin
United States
Illustrator
Elly Simmons
Illustrator origin
United States
Book details Type, binding, genre, fiction or nonfiction and more
Type
Picture Book
Binding
Paperback
Genre
Biography and Autobiography
Fiction or nonfiction
Non-Fiction
Subject
Family
Pages
32
Dimensions
9.8 x 8.1 x .1 (Inches)
Reader fit Ages and grades
Ages
7, 8, 9, 10
Grades
Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4
Publication details ISBN, publisher and copyright
ISBN
9780892391660
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Copyright
2001