Margarita Engle

Gebundenes Buch

A Song of Frutas

Beschreibung

While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.

Autor

Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels Rima’s Rebellion; Your Heart, My Sky; With a Star in My Hand ; The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner; The Lightning Dreamer; and  Wild Dreamers, a Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor book. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com. Sara Palacios is the recipient of a Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for  Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match and the illustrator of several other picture books, including A Song of Frutas, The Flying Girl, and Martina Has Too Many Tías. Sara graduated with a degree in graphic design and went on to earn BFA and MFA degrees in illustration from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. A native of Mexico, Sara now lives in San Francisco. Visit her at SaraPalaciosIllustrations.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Seitenzahl: 40
• Altersempfehlung: 4 bis 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 226mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781534444898
• ISBN-10: 1534444890
• Artikelnr.: 61438610