Description:
Join María de la Luz with her friends, family, and dog as she finds a way to break through the language barrier and make friends with the new boy at school. Celebrate Spanglish and US-Mexico border cultures in this children's picture book.
Brief description: Susan L. Roth is illustrator of more than 50 picture books for children, many of which she has also written. Her collages illustrate _Parrots Over Puerto Rico_ (Lee and Low Books), which received the Robert F. Sibert Medal with co-author, Cindy Trumbore.
Review Quotes: This delightful and audacious book will bring much joy to those who speak the lengua de la comunidad, and for those captivated by it! Wonderfully illustrated, the story speaks from the everyday experiencias auténticas of generations growing up as hablantes bilingües as well as the ways they inhabit and understand their heritage and their bicultural world. Un triunfo that touches los corazones of its readers, chicos y grandes! Professor Claudia Holguín, Director of the University of Oregon Spanish as a Heritage Language Program