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"This is a story for librarians, teachers and parents as well as for children ages 6 and up because it helps us understand the newcomer’s search for a place of belonging. Touching and true."--Feminist Bookstore News
"Using simple terms and colorful illustrations, Rodríguez paints a moving portrait of 9-year-old América Soliz, an immigrant girl trying to find herself in a strange, unfriendly city."--The Chicago Reporter
"This story deals realistically with the problems in urban neighborhoods and has an upbeat theme. Carlos Vázquez’s inspired four-color illustrations give a vivid sense of the barrio, as well as the beauty and strength of the young girl América.”—Hispanic Outlook
“With primitive-style paintings and a text sensitive to the fears and courage of immigrant children, this is a good introduction for children who are probably sharing their schools with immigrants just like América Soliz."--Providence Journal
"América is Her Name is an invitation for all children to write, be poets, and belong to the whole world. The color illustrations by Carlos Vázquez are fantastic and give one more reason to read this book to your child.”—El Paso Times
“What really sets La Llaman América/América is Her Name apart is that the story manages to address perplexing realities with neither cynicism nor an excess of earnestness.”—Kathy O'Connell, Hartford Advocate
“Rodríguez brings heart and experience to his long-awaited first picture book, a beautiful tribute to the power of poetry to heal and transform....This heartening book will touch readers and writers of all ages and backgrounds and belongs in every school and public library.”—Frances Ann Day, MultiCultural Review
Recipient of a Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, a Skipping Stones Honor Award, and selected for the 1999 Bank Street List of Best Children's Books.
Set in the Pilsen barrio of Chicago, this children's picture book gives a heartwarming message of hope. The heroine, América, is a primary school student who is unhappy in school until a poet visits the class and inspires the students to express themselves creatively-in Spanish or English. América Is Her Name emphasizes the power of individual creativity in overcoming a difficult environment and establishing self-worth and identity through the young girl América's desire and determination to be a writer. This story deals realistically with the problems in urban neighborhoods and has an upbeat theme: you can succeed in spite of the odds against you. Carlos Vázquez's inspired four-color illustrations give a vivid sense of the barrio, as well as the beauty and strength of the young girl América.
Also available in a Spanish language edition, La llaman América.
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