Calling the Doves: El Canto de Las Palomas (Bilingual English/Spanish)
by Juan Herrera (Author) Elly Simmons (Illustrator)
Calling the Doves is Poet Laureate 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.
Llamando a las palomas es la historia del poeta laureado Juan Felipe Herrera sobre su infancia como trabajador agrícola migrante. En un lenguaje ameno y lírico, recrea la alegría de desayunar a cielo abierto, escuchar canciones mexicanas en la casita rodante que construyó su padre y celebrar con otras familias una fiesta en la montaña. Recuerda las canciones y la poesía de su madre, y las historias de su padre y su llamamiento a las palomas. Para Juan Felipe, el camino del campesino fue también el comienzo de su camino personal para convertirse en escritor.
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Juan Herrera is an acclaimed poet and children's book author. His first children's book, Calling the Doves, won the prestigious Ezra Jack Keats Award, and another book, The Upside Down Boy, was made into a musical for young audiences in 2004. He teaches at California State University, Fresno.
Anita De Lucio-Brock was born in Hidalgo, Mexico, and grew up in Southern California. A graduate of Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, Anita began making art while in graduate school. Anita paints on wood and canvas, and also creates altars for el Día de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead. She lives in San Francisco, California.
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Authors, American
Migrant labor
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Herrera, Juan Felipe
Agricultural laborers
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