Calling the Doves

Calling the Doves PDF Author: Juan Felipe Herrera
Publisher: Children's Book Press
ISBN: 9780892391660
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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This bilingual memoir by a celebrated poet paints a vivid picture of his migrant farmworker childhood. Full-color illustrations.

Calling the Doves

Calling the Doves PDF Author: Juan Felipe Herrera
Publisher: Children's Book Press
ISBN: 9780892391660
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Book Description
This bilingual memoir by a celebrated poet paints a vivid picture of his migrant farmworker childhood. Full-color illustrations.

Super Cilantro Girl

Super Cilantro Girl PDF Author: Juan Felipe Herrera
Publisher: Children's Book Press
ISBN: 9780892391875
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Eight-year-old Esmeralda is transformed into a superhero and flies off toescue her mother, who visited Mexico without her green-card and is not beingermitted to return to the United States.

Imagine

Imagine PDF Author: Juan Felipe Herrera
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536220574
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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A buoyant, breathtaking poem from Juan Felipe Herrera — brilliantly illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Lauren Castillo — speaks to every dreaming heart. Have you ever imagined what you might be when you grow up? When he was very young, Juan Felipe Herrera picked chamomile flowers in windy fields and let tadpoles swim across his hands in a creek. He slept outside and learned to say good-bye to his amiguitos each time his family moved to a new town. He went to school and taught himself to read and write English and filled paper pads with rivers of ink as he walked down the street after school. And when he grew up, he became the United States Poet Laureate and read his poems aloud on the steps of the Library of Congress. If he could do all of that . . . what could you do? With this illustrated poem of endless possibility, Juan Felipe Herrera and Lauren Castillo breathe magic into the hopes and dreams of readers searching for their place in life.

Two Turtle Doves

Two Turtle Doves PDF Author: Alex Monroe
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408841193
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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'I imagine its being rediscovered with delight in some dusty book case a century hence and hailed as a classic' Spectator 'A wonderful book, a hymn to the pleasurable process of making things' The Times Two Turtle Doves is the story of a life spent making things. Growing up in 1970s Suffolk in a crumbling giant of a house with wild, tangled gardens, Alex Monroe was left to wreak havoc by invention. Without visible parental influence, but with sisters to love him and brothers to fight for him, he made nature into his world. Creation became a compulsion, whether it was go-carts and guns, cross-bows and booby-traps, boats, bikes or scooters. And then, it was jewellery. From full-out warfare waged against the local schoolboys to the freedom found in daredevil Raleigh bike antics to the delicacies of dress-making and the most intricate designs for jewellery, Two Turtle Doves traces the intimate journey of how an idea is transformed from a fleeting thought into an exquisite piece of jewellery. It is about where we find our creativity, how we remember and why we make the things we do.

Calling the Doves

Calling the Doves PDF Author: Juan Felipe Herrera
Publisher: Children's Press
ISBN: 9780516801322
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
Lyrical language depicts the childhood of a migrant farmworker.

Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves

Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves PDF Author: Sidney Thompson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149622020X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an origin story in the true American tradition. Before Bass Reeves could stake his claim as the most successful nineteenth-century American lawman, arresting more outlaws than any other deputy during his thirty-two-year career as a deputy U.S. marshal in some of the most dangerous regions of the Wild West, he was a slave. After a childhood picking cotton, he became an expert marksman under his master’s tutelage, winning shooting contests throughout the region. His skill had serious implications, however, as the Civil War broke out. Reeves was given to his master’s mercurial, sadistic, Moby-Dick-quoting son in the hopes that Reeves would keep him safe in battle. The ensuing humiliation, love, heroics, war, mind games, and fear solidified Reeves’s determination to gain his freedom and drew him one step further on his fated path to an illustrious career. Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an important historical work that places Reeves in the pantheon of American heroes and a thrilling historical novel that narrates a great man’s exploits amid the near-mythic world of the nineteenth-century frontier.

Jabberwalking

Jabberwalking PDF Author: Juan Felipe Herrera
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536201405
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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Book Description
A former United States Poet Laureate shares secrets about viewing the world from a poet's perspective, explaining how "jabberwalking" poets draw inspiration from everything they experience to express themselves in creative ways.

Finding a Dove for Gramps

Finding a Dove for Gramps PDF Author: Lisa J. Amstutz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807512791
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
As a boy and his mother participate in the annual bird count, he misses his grandfather. Gramps went south for the winter, so the boy watches especially for Gramps' favorite bird. Includes facts about the Christmas Bird Count, how to participate, and a bird checklist. Full color.

Pilgrim Bell

Pilgrim Bell PDF Author: Kaveh Akbar
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451522
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar’s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased is, too, a kind of self-destruction, what does one do with the body’s question, “what now shall I repair?” Here, Akbar responds with prayer as an act of devotion to dissonance—the infinite void of a loved one’s absence, the indulgence of austerity, making a life as a Muslim in an Islamophobic nation—teasing the sacred out of silence and stillness. Richly crafted and generous, Pilgrim Bell’s linguistic rigor is tuned to the register of this moment and any moment. As the swinging soul crashes into its limits, against the atrocities of the American empire, and through a profoundly human capacity for cruelty and grace, these brilliant poems dare to exist in the empty space where song lives—resonant, revelatory, and holy.

No Room for Doubt

No Room for Doubt PDF Author: Angela Dove
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425225882
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Book Description
When a young woman is murdered, the lives of those in her immediate circle are thrown into chaos as the mother become obsessed with keeping the authorities interested in the case and the husband falls into despair after being convicted in the court of public opinion. Original.