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ZIN Product Number: 10163572
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Econo-Clad Books
ISBN: 0613105109
Release Date: Jan 10, 1991
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
"Migrant farmworkers, Carlos' parents have loaded up the station wagonand are heading home to La Perla, Mexico, from California for the Christmas holidays. The adults are excited, but Carlos and his sisters do not remember Mexico and find it hard to understand their parents' excitement. 'Why did you ever leave?' the children ask. 'There is no work in La Perla. We are here for the opportunities.' When they arrive, there are hugs all around from familyand friends, and 'that night, everyone in La Perla comes to Grandfather's house. The walls bulge with talk and rememberings.' Carlos and his sisters begin to understand that the opportunities their parents speak of are not opportunities for the grown-ups but for the children." (Bull Cent Child Books) "Agesfive to eight." (Booklist)
| | | | From The Publisher
Christmas is coming and Carlos and his family are going home-driving south across the border to Mexico. But Mexico doesn't seem like home to Carlos, even though he and his sisters were born there. Can home be a place you don't really remember?
At first, La Perla doesn't seem very different from the other villages they pass through. But then Carlos is swept into the festivities by Grandfather, Aunt Ana, and the whole village. Finally, Carlos begins to understand Mama and Papa's love for the place they left behind, and realizes that home can be anywhere, because it stays in the hearts of the people who love you.
Eve Bunting and David Diaz-the Caldecott Medal-winning team behind Smoky Night- collaborated once again to create a dazzling picture book that glows with holiday joy and the spirit of Mexico.
Author Biography:
Eve Bunting is the winner of the Golden Kite Award and the three-time recipient of the Best Work of Fiction Award of the Southern CaliforniaCouncil on Literature for Children and Young People. She has written more than one hundred books for young readers, including is Anybody There ?;Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies, a Best Book of 1990 (School Library Journal); Sharing Susan; and Coffin on a Case, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, given by the Mystery Writers of America.
Ms. Bunting was born in Ireland and now lives in southern California.
| | | | Annotation
Although a Mexican family comes to the United States to work as farm laborers so that their children will have opportunities, the parents still consider Mexico their home.
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Eve Bunting and David Diaz do it again!
-- Faith Philpott, a student at KSU_Stark in Ohio, July 9, 2001
Also Recommended: Smoky Night by Eve Bunting, David Diaz illustrator
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Children: Grades 1-2, Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks, Juvenile Fiction, Ethnic - Hispanic & Latino, Holidays & Festivals - Christmas, United States, Fiction, Migrant labor, Juvenile fiction, Home, Mexicans
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