| Calling the Doves / El Canto de Las Palomas Contributor(s): Herrera, Juan Felipe (Author), Simmons, Elly (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0892391669 ISBN-13: 9780892391660 Publisher: Children's Book Press (CA) OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Spanish Published: April 2014 Annotation: This bilingual memoir by a celebrated poet paints a vivid picture of his migrant farmworker childhood. Full-color illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Hispanic & Latino |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 94045901 |
| Lexile Measure: 910 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 7.8" W x 9.5" (0.30 lbs) 32 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Geographic Orientation - California |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 18328 Reading Level: 4.5 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bilingual English/Spanish. Calling the Doves is Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera's story of his migrant farmworker childhood. Calling the Doves is poet Juan Felipe Herrera's story of his migrant farmworker childhood. In delightful and lyrical language, he recreates the joy of eating breakfast under the open sky, listening to Mexican songs in the little trailer house his father built, and celebrating with other families at a fiesta in the mountains. He remembers his mother's songs and poetry, and his father's stories and his calling the doves. For Juan Felipe, the farmworker road was also the beginning of his personal road to becoming a writer. |