A Movie in My Pillow: Una Pelicula En Me Almohada (Bilingual English/Spanish)

by Jorge Argueta (Author) Elizabeth Gomez (Illustrator)

A Movie in My Pillow: Una Pelicula En Me Almohada (Bilingual English/Spanish)
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade

El joven Jorgito ha venido a vivir al Distrito de la Misión de San Francisco, pero no ha olvidado la belleza única de El Salvador. El joven Jorgito ha venido a vivir al Distrito de la Misión de San Francisco, pero no ha olvidado la belleza única de El Salvador.

En su primera colección de poemas para niños, el poeta Jorge Argueta evoca la maravilla de su infancia en las zonas rurales de El Salvador, una relación conmovedora con un padre cariñoso y su confusión y deleite en su nuevo hogar urbano. Vislumbramos la riqueza del mundo interior y los sueños de Jorgito: la película en su almohada. La artista Elizabeth Gómez captura a la perfección la belleza indígena de El Salvador, la tristeza de la guerra y la alegría de la reunión familiar en San Francisco. Sus pinturas, con sus colores brillantes y detalles llamativos, llenan cada página de autenticidad y encanto.

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Jorge Argueta
Jorge Argueta is an award-winning author of picture books and poetry for young children. He has won the International Latino Book Award, the Américas Book Award, the NAPPA Gold Award and the Independent Publisher Book Award for Multicultural Fiction for Juveniles. His books have also been named to the Américas Award Commended List, the USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List, Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Books and the Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices. A native Salvadoran and Pipil Nahua Indian, Jorge spent much of his life in rural El Salvador. He now lives in San Francisco, California.

Duncan Tonatiuh is an author and illustrator of several highly acclaimed books for young readers, including The Princess and the Warrior, Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote, Dear Primo and Diego Rivera. He won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Separate Is Never Equal, and Funny Bones was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book. Other awards include the Pura Belpré Illustration Award and the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, and commendations from the Américas Award and Notable Books for a Global Society. He lives in San Miguel Allende, Mexico.
Classification
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ISBN-13
9780892392193
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Children's Book Press (CA)
Publication date
April 20, 2013
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV011030 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino
Library of Congress categories
Spanish language materials
Bilingual
Children's poetry, Salvadoran
Salvadoran poetry

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