Sleeping With the Light On - Couverture rigide

Unger, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1773063847 ISBN 13 : 9781773063843

Editeur : Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada, 2020

Synopsis

Life in Guatemala is simple for young Davico and his older brother Felipe ... until soldiers invade, and the blackouts begin.

Davico lives with his family above La Casita -- the Little House -- in Guatemala City in the early 1950s. But it's not just a little house. It's also the family restaurant!

The restaurant provides plenty of distraction and adventure for Davico and his older brother, Felipe. The mean cook, Augusto, and the always-late waiter, Otto, love to play tricks on Davico. There's a huge oven that Felipe knows how to light -- if he can only reach the box of matches above the stove. And don't forget the glass tank of live lobsters -- including the king of them all, Genghis Khan, who stares at Davico with round unblinking eyes. Could Genghis Khan climb on the back of the other lobsters and get out of the tank, Davico wonders. Could he move faster on land than in the water?

Then one day, Davico hears shooting in the streets. There are blackouts every evening, and the family must sleep under the big wooden table in the dining room. People stop coming to the restaurant, and tanks and soldiers swarm the front of the National Palace, where a shoeshine boy warns the brothers that the gringos are coming.

But what does that mean, and who are the gringos?

Davico wants to be brave, but the shooting and tanks and airplanes flying overhead terrify him. He finds comfort in the special lamp that his father buys him to endure the blackouts. But it is not enough to console Davico when his parents announce that it's time to leave for the United States of America, where no one speaks Spanish, and everything is different.

Key Text Features
Illustrations

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7
Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting)

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

DAVID UNGER is an award-winning translator and author born in Guatemala. His work has been translated into Italian, Spanish and Chinese. He received Guatemala's 2014 Miguel Angel Asturias National Prize in Literature for lifetime achievement, though he writes exclusively in English and lives in the US. His many translations include The Girl from Chimel, The Honey Jar and Popul Vuh: A Sacred Book of the Maya.

CARLOS VÉLEZ AGUILERA is an editorial illustrator and comics artist who has illustrated more than twenty children's books, and is the author-illustrator of the graphic novel Salón Destino. He has been recognized with two illustration awards in the catalogue for the International Children's and Youth Book Fair in Mexico. Carlos lives in Mexico City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
• Date d'édition: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1773063847
• ISBN 13: 9781773063843
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Illustrateur: Aquilera Carlos Vélez
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible