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Tag: immigration

September 19, 2018 by Mary Ann Cappiello

I’m Your Neighbor Books: Immigration Children’s Literature

If you are a frequent Classroom Bookshelf reader, you have likely noticed that over the past year we have posted a range of entries about books that reflect the immigrant and refugee experience. This week’s Monday post was devoted to two books: La Frontera and Dreamers. Last spring, we wrote entries on The Night Diary, Escape from […]

September 17, 2018 by Mary Ann Cappiello

La Frontera and Dreamers

La Frontera: El Viaje con Papá/My Journey with Papa Written by Deborah Mills and Alfredo Alva Illustrated by Claudia Navarro Published by Barefoot Books, 2018, ISBN 978-1-78285-388-6 Book Review “Cuando era niño, mi familia vivía en el pequeño pueblo de La Ceja, en el centro de Mexico, en el estado de Guanajuato. Mi familia había vivido allí […]

March 19, 2018 by Mary Ann Cappiello

Islandborn

Islandborn/Lola: Edicion en espanol de ISLANDBORN Written by Junot Díaz,  illustrated by Leo Espinosa Published by Dial Books ISBN:  978-0735229860 (English)/ ISBN:  978-0525552819 (Spanish) All Ages Book Review “Every kid in Lola’s school was from somewhere else. Hers was the school of faraway places.” But when her teacher asks her class to draw a picture of […]

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Shelter

September 19, 2017 by Erika Thulin Dawes

Shelter Written by Celine Claire and Illustrated by Qin Leng Published by Kids Can Press in 2017 ISBN 978-1-77138-927-3 Grades PreK – 6 Book Review Day begins as usual in a forest community, until the animals hear the news…. “A STORM IS COMING!” A flurry of preparations ensue and all brace for the storm. Safely […]

A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket

May 16, 2016 by Mary Ann Cappiello

A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket Written by Deborah Hopkinson Published by Alfred A. Knopf Publishing ISBN: 978-0-385-75499-6 Grades 4-8 Book Review “These days, when anyone asks, I say I’m an American, New York City-born. And why not? Because, in a way, I was born here.” Rocco Zaccaro is ripped away from […]

All the Way to America

October 24, 2011 by Mary Ann Cappiello

All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel  Written and Illustrated by Dan Yaccarino Alfred Knopf Publishers ISBN 978-0-375-86642-5 Grades K-4 Book Review There are plenty of picture books, both fiction and nonfiction, which address the period of European immigration in the late 19th and early 20th […]

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