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| 1. | from Children's Book Press (CA) Price: $7.95 Customer Review:  This bilingual picture book tells the story of poet Juan Felipe Herrera's early years with his parents who were migrant farmworkers in California. Herrera's love for his poor hardworking parents is evident. The vibrant, vivid pictures by Elly Simmons combine with Herrera's Spanish/English text to... |
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| 2. | from Children's Book Press (CA) Price: $13.22 Customer Review: Young Juanito works with his Grandma Esperanza in selling clothing and used books at the local community flea market. As Juanito goes about running errands and bartering goods, he finds himself in the heart of a thriving Mexican American community, one that Juanito knows to be caring and generous,... |
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| 3. | from Children's Book Press (CA) Price: $12.37 Customer Review:  In this sequel to Calling the Doves, Juanito's farm-worker parents settle down so that he can go to school. Suddenly, everything Juanito does feels upside down, but a sensitive teacher and devoted family help him make a place for himself. A 2000 Smithsonian Notable Book for Children. (summary by the... |
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| 4. | from Scholastic Press Price: $13.25 |
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| 5. | from Children's Book Press (CA) Price: $13.22 Customer Review: Super Cilantro Girl is an excellent bilingual Spanish/English text which brings a new heroine to life and spices the account with Honorio Robledo Tapia's drawings. A young girl seeks to keep her family together and uses a bunch of cilantro leaves and a wish to rescue her mother, who is being held at... |
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| 6. | from University of New Mexico Press Price: $13.95 Customer Review: This is a good story about a depressed teenaged boy. It's written like a poem through the entire book and it's really easy to understand. If you think you've got it bad, you should take a look at this guy's life. |
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| 7. | from City Lights Publishers Price: $12.44 Customer Review: Cutting edge Chicano poet Juan Felipe Herrera and young master print maker Artemio Rodriguez of Michoacan Mexico combine as a dynamic duo to produce a book that is more than the sum of its gifts. The two share an obvious affinity of irrepressible hilarity in their work, a Mexican aesthetic of living... |
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| 8. | from Children's Book Press Price: $13.22 |
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| 9. | from Rayo Price: $16.89 Customer Review: I finished Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found inside a Cereal Box with mixed feelings. On one hand, it had a touching plot: a girl named Yolanda promises to collect all the dust and return it to Ground Zero in order to heal her Uncle DJ. Although I usually find modern poets overrated, there were a few... |
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| 10. | from University of Arizona Press Price: $14.95 Customer Review: Border Crosser With A Lambourghini Dream spells it out for the reader:this book is an inyoface collection of poems that spins our curiosities into unknown directions. The reader is spellbound by images that riff off another; thus, this book becomes the mirror image of self and forces the reader to... |
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