from AllieR93

This book contains poetry about the Spanish culture and the importance of family. The poems talk about the difficulty of going to school without knowing the common language. The child only knew Spanish and it became frightening when the teacher only spoke English. He did not know how he would lea...

from Cheryl_in_CC_NV

Such a wonderful set of picture-books of poems for all ages. This one focuses on growing up in Los Angeles a few decades ago, when the smog got so bad they finally took drastic measures to clean it up, and had success. The same theme corresponds to the drastic measure of emigrating, working in fi...

from 9057saori

いつも読んでいるのはヨーロッパって感じだけどこれはアジアンとかアフリカンな感じがして違った感じがおもしろかった。 italan talan! pages31 50min

from SimoneAlexis

Following the bilingual theme of his other books, Alarcon takes readers on a journey to LA through his poems. This book is filled with vivid imaginary and metaphors and personification, and follows the theme of fall. I would recommend this book to children in the 3rd-5th grade. ESL students might...

from rpultusk

This is a fantastic book of poetry about various aspects of the author's childhood in Los Angeles. Poems are done in Spanish and in English and are placed next to each other on the page so that they can be read and enjoyed in either language. Poems are extremely sensory, including the smells, sou...