Laughing Tomatoes/Jitomates risuenos: And Other Spring Poems/Y otros poemas de primavera (Magical Cycle of Seasons)

Alarcon, Francisco X.

ISBN 10: 0892391995 / ISBN 13: 9780892391998

Edité par Children's Book Press (edition First Trade Paper Edition), 2005

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Laughing Tomatoes/Jitomates risuenos: And Other Spring Poems/Y otros poemas de primavera (Magical Cycle of Seasons)
• Éditeur: Children's Book Press (edition First Trade Paper Edition)
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0892391995
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780892391998
• Reliure: Paperback
• Illustrateur: Gonzalez, Maya Christina
• Édition: First Trade Paper Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

Pura Belpré Author Award Winner - American Library Association (ALA)

Bilingual English/Spanish. From the imagination of poet Francisco X. Alarcón comes Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems, a playful and moving collection of twenty poems in English and Spanish.

Tomatoes laugh, chiles explode, and tortillas applaud the sun! With joy and tenderness, delight and sadness, Alcarcón's poems honor the wonders of life and nature: welcoming the morning sun, remembering his grandmother's songs, paying tribute to children working in the fields, and sharing his dream of a world filled with gardens.

Artist Maya Christina Gonzalez invites us to experience the poems with her lively cast of characters-including a spirited grandma, four vivacious children, and playful pets who tease and delight. Follow them from page to page as they bring each poem to colorful life.

Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems is a verbal and visual treat, giving us twenty opportunities to see everything for the first time.

Check out the other titles in this series:

ANGELS RIDE BIKES AND OTHER FALL POEMS - FROM THE BELLYBUTTON OF THE MOON AND OTHER SUMMER POEMS - IGUANAS IN THE SNOW AND OTHER WINTER POEMS - LAUGHING TOMATOES AND OTHER SPRING POEMS

À propos des auteurs

Francisco X. Alarcón was a renowned poet and educator, and a three-time winner of the Pura Belpré Author Award Honor for his bilingual Magical Cycle of the Seasons series of poetry for children. His many other honors include the American Book Award, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, the Chicano Literary Prize, and finalist for state poet laureate of California. Alarcón was also the author of several poetry collections for adults and textbooks for teaching Spanish. In addition, he directed the Spanish for Native Speakers Program at the University of California. Alarcón passed away in early 2016.

Maya Gonzalez is an award-winning children's book artist, author, activist and progressive educator. Their work addresses systemic inequity in relation to race/ethnicity, sexism, and cissexism using children's books as radical agents of change and healing, both personally and culturally. Gonzalez co-founded Reflection Press, a POC, queer and trans owned independent publishing house that uses holistic, nature-based, and anti-oppression frameworks in their books and materials for kids and grown-ups. They are also the creator of the Gender Wheel, a tool to express the dynamic, infinite and inclusive reality of gender, and provides lectures and workshops to educators, parents and caregivers. Visit them online at mayagonzalez.com.