Calling the Doves / El canto de las palomas by Juan Felipe Herrera

Story by Juan Felipe Herrera • Pictures by Elly Simmons

The author recalls his childhood in the mountains and valleys of California and his
farmworker parents who inspired him with poetry and song.

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Calling the Doves is poet Juan Felipe Herrera's story of his migrant farmworker childhood. In delightful and lyrical language, he recreates the joy of eating breakfast under the open sky, listening to Mexican songs in the little trailer house his father built, and celebrating with other families at a fiesta in the mountains. He remembers his mother singing songs and reciting poetry, and his father telling stories and calling the doves. For Juan Felipe, the farmworker road was also the beginning of his personal road to becoming a writer.

32 pages

Full-color illustrations

8 1/4" x 10 3/4"

Ages 6 and up

English/Spanish


	1997 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Hungry Mind Review's "Children's Books of Distinction" Award Winner 1996 International Reading Association Teachers' Choice Américas Award Honor Book 1995 Smithsonian Notable Book Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice School Library Journal's "Best Books of 1995"

"The combination of a beautiful text and radiant paintings makes Calling the Doves an excellent bilingual picture book."
      —School Library Journal

"A welcome alternative to the usually bleak portrayal of the migrant farmworker experience, this is an inspirational self-portrait of a loving Latino family. A poetic picture-book memoir that will add beauty to any literature … collection."
     —Booklist

"This picture book is strongly recommended for use in migrant programs and by teachers of bilingual or ESL classes."
      —MultiCultural Review

"Color pencil and acrylic paintings express the warmth and security felt by a child growing up in a loving household."
      —CCBC Choices

Calling the Doves

Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-89239-166-0
ISBN-10: 0-89239-166-9
$7.95


	Other Books by Juan Felipe Herrera Super Cilantro Girl / La Supernỉa del Cilantro The Upside Down Boy / El niño de cabeza Other Books illustrated by Elly Simmons Magic Dogs of the Volcanoes / Los perros mágicos de los volcanes Other Books about Immigration / Migrant Education The Adventures of Connie and Diego / Las aventuras de Connie y Diego Angels Ride Bikes and Other Fall Poems / Los ángeles andan en bicicleta y otros poemas de otoño Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del otro lado A Movie in My Pillow / Una película en mi almohada Super Cilantro Girl / La Supernỉa del Cilantro The Upside Down Boy / El niño de cabeza Other books from the Latino Communities