La Poeta del Piso de Arriba - Hardcover

Cofer, Judith Ortiz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558857885 ISBN 13: 9781558857889

Verlag: ARTE PUBLICO PR, 2014

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Originally published as The Poet Upstairs, this award-winning ode to poetry is now available in a Spanish-language edition.

Juliana is too sick to go to school one cold, winter day. So she stays in bed and looks out her bedroom window. She watches as a tall lady in a red coat and hat carries her boxes of books and papers upstairs. Her mother has heard that the mysterious woman is a poet writing a book. Juliana loves books and can't wait to meet the poet upstairs.

Juliana listens to the poet's typewriter clicking and clacking all day long, while outside the snow falls and people rush by bundled up in their coats. She dreams of the tiny tropical island “sitting on the ocean like a green button on a blue dress,” the island home that her mother and the poet share. She dreams of red hibiscus flowers and beaches of white sand.

The next day, she receives an invitation from the poet to come upstairs. Together, they write a poem about a big river that leads to the sea. As they make pictures with words, the walls of the cold apartment become a beautiful vista of mountains, palm trees, birds and flowers. That special day, poetry takes Juliana from her cold and ordinary apartment to a sparkling island habitat.

Invoking Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos' famous poem about the Loiza River, Ortiz Cofer's lyrical text is combined with Oscar Ortiz's breathtaking illustrations of the natural world and the animals that inhabit it. This inspiring picture book for children ages 5 to 9 demonstrates the power of the written word as Juliana learns that poetry can change the world.

Biografía del autor:

Judith Ortiz Cofer is a native of Puerto Rico. She is a poet, essayist, and novelist whose books for young readers include "Call Me Maria: A Novel in Letters, Poems, and Prose". She is the Regents and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

OSCAR ORTIZ is an accomplished Puerto Rican artist. "The Poet Upstairs " is his first picture book.

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• Verlag: ARTE PUBLICO PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1558857885
• ISBN 13: 9781558857889
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1
• Zeichner: Ortiz Oscar