Two White Rabbits - Hardcover

Buitrago, Jairo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1554987415 ISBN 13: 9781554987412

Verlag: Groundwood Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border.

They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn’t know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to stop and her father has to earn more money before they can continue their journey.

As many thousands of people, especially children, in Mexico and Central America continue to make the arduous journey to the US border in search of a better life, this is an important book that shows a young migrant’s perspective.

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

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Author JAIRO BUITRAGO has collaborated with Rafael Yockteng on several picture books, including Jimmy the Greatest! (six starred reviews), Two White Rabbits (three starred reviews), Walk with Me (three starred reviews), Lion and Mouse (two starred reviews) and Wounded Falcons (two starred reviews and named a USBBY Outstanding International Book). Jairo has also won the Hispanoamericano Castillo prize for children's literature and the Antonio García Cubas Award. He lives in Mexico City, Mexico.

RAFAEL YOCKTENG has illustrated many highly acclaimed children’s books, including Afterward, Everything was Different: A Tale From the Pleistocene; Wounded Falcons (two starred reviews and named a USBBY Outstanding International Book); Jimmy the Greatest! (six starred reviews); Two White Rabbits (three starred reviews); and Walk with Me (three starred reviews) by Jairo Buitrago. Rafael’s books have been included on IBBY’s Honor List, the Horn Book Fanfare and in the White Ravens Catalogue. He lives in Bogotá, Colombia.

ELISA AMADO is a Guatemalan-born author and translator. She has written My Friend (Mi amiga), illustrated by Alfonso Ruano; Un Barrilete para el Día de los Muertos / Barrilete: A Kite for the Day of the Dead; Cousins (Primas), illustrated by Luis Garay; and Tricycle (El triciclo), illustrated by Alfonso Ruano, which is on the Américas Award Commended List and is a USBBY Outstanding International Book. She lives in Toronto.

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“Where are we going?' I ask sometimes, but no one answers.
We wait by the side of the highway. We aren't traveling right now.
There is a boy. I count — one — there isn't any other.
Papá works while we wait like we do almost every day.
The boy stays with me. We count the cars that are going by, the dogs that are going by, but I don't think the boy knows how to count very well.
I show him my clouds. The ones that have shapes.
And he shows me his box. There are two white rabbits in it.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Groundwood Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1554987415
• ISBN 13: 9781554987412
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Yockteng Rafael
• Anzahl der Seiten: 56
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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