Calling the Doves / El canto de las palomas

By Juan Felipe Herrera, Elly Simmons
Paperback: $11.95

Bilingual English/Spanish. Calling the Doves is Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s story of his migrant farmworker childhood.

Description

Calling the Doves is poet 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.

About the Creators

Juan Felipe Herrera

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.

Elly Simmons

Elly Simmons is an internationally-exhibited painter. Her first picture book for Children's Book Press, Magic Dogs of the Volcanoes by Manlio Argueto, was highly praised for its rich colors and magnificent imagery. She lives with her family in Lagunitas, California.

Awards

  • Ezra Jack Keats Writer Award Winner

    Grummond Children's Literature Collection

  • Américas Award Commended Title

    Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs

Reviews

  • "The combination of a beautiful text and radiant paintings makes Calling the Doves an excellent bilingual picture book."

    - School Library Journal
  • "A welcome alternative to the usually bleak portrayal of the migrant farmworker experience, this is an inspirational self-portrait of a loving Latino family. A poetic picture-book memoir that will add beauty to any literature. . . collection."

    - Booklist

Paperback

  • ISBN 9780892391660
  • Publication Date Apr 01, 2014
  • Trim Size 9.75 × 8 in
  • Weight 0.3125 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Word Count 1183
  • Interests

  • Audience Children
  • BISAC Category 1 JNF / Biography & Autobiography / General
  • BISAC Category 2 JNF / Poetry / General
  • BISAC Category 3 JNF / Social Topics / Emigration & Immigration
  • Themes Bilingual, Biography / Memoir, Childhood Experiences and Memories, Courage, Dreams & Aspirations, Environment / Nature, Families, Farming, Fathers, History & Civics, Home, Identity / Self Esteem / Confidence, Immigration, Informational / Expository Nonfiction, Latinx / Latino / Hispanic, Mothers, Nonfiction, Occupations, People In Motion, Poverty, Pride, Vehicles In Motion
  • Reading Levels

  • Age Range Ages 7 - 10
  • Grade Range Grades 2 - 5
  • Guided Reading R
  • Spanish Guided Reading R
  • ATOS Book Level 4.5
  • DRA 40
  • Lexile Code AD
  • Lexile Level 910
  • Reading Level Grades 4 - 5
  • SRC 4.1
  • Bebop Reading Fluent
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