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A young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the U.S. border.
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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.
Riassunto
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.
Testo aggiuntivo
A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the Year
A School Library Journal Best Picture Book of the Year
A NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children Recommended Book
A USBBY Outstanding International Book
A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year
Selected for the Notable Books for a Global Society list
"Hope and hardship coexist in this haunting look at refugees fleeing home in hopes of a safer, more secure life." Publishers Weekly, starred review
"An important and timely picture book for every library collection." School Library Journal, starred review
"...it's a masterpiece of understatement. In leaving readers with much to wonder about, the book packs the most powerful of punches." Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Two White Rabbits belongs on bookshelves everywhere: it’s an extraordinary, compelling first step to understanding and empathy, and a persuasive teaching tool to inspire effective doing." BookDragon
"Older readers will appreciate the allegory, and younger ones the simplicity of this spare immigration tale." Booklist
