Soñadores - by Yuyi Morales (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>This Spanish language edition of Yuyi Morales's Pura Belpré Award winner and New York Times Bestseller <i>Dreamers</i> is now available in paperback!</b> <p/>Caldecott Honor artist and six-time Pura Belpré winner Yuyi Morales's gorgeous book Dreamers, and its Spanish language version <i>Soñadores</i>, are about making a home in a new place. Yuyi and her son Kelly's passage was not easy, and Yuyi did not speak any English at the time. But together, they found an unexpected, unbelievable place: the public library. There, book by book, they untangled the language of this strange new land, and learned to make their home within it.<br><i>Soñadores</i> is a celebration of what migrants bring with them when they leave their homes. It's a story about family. And it's a story to remind us that we are all dreamers, bringing our own gifts wherever we roam. Beautiful and powerful at any time but given particular urgency as the status of our own Dreamers becomes uncertain, this is a story that is both topical and timeless.<br>The lyrical text is followed by a brief autobiographical essay about Yuyi's own experience, a list of books that inspired her (and still do), and a description of the beautiful images, textures, and mementos she used to create this book. It has been translated by the acclaimed Teresa Mlawer. <br><i>Dreamers</i> was listed on Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2018, School Library Journal's Best Books of 2018, Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2018 and the Amazon Best Books of 2018. It won a Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Award Honor, 2018, was a Kirkus Prize finalist, 2018, and was included on the Horn Book Fanfare list 2018.<br><i>Dreamers</i> has been awarded the 2019 Pura Belpre Award for illustration, The Flora Stieglitz Strauss Award from Bank Street College, and the Tomás Rivera award. <br>This exquisite book is now available in paperback!<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>★ Many books about immigration describe the process of making new friends and fitting in; this one describes what it's like to become a creative being in two languages, and to learn to love in both. 'We are two languages./ We are lucha./ We are resilience./ We are hope.'--<b><i>Publishers Weekly</i>, Starred Review</b> <p/> ★ An immigrant's tale steeped in hope, dreams, and love. . . . Details in the art provide cultural markers specific to the U.S., but the story ultimately belongs to one immigrant mother and her son. Thanks to books and stories (some of her favorites are appended), the pair find their voices as 'soñadores of the world.' A resplendent masterpiece.--<b><i>Kirkus Reviews, </i> Starred Review</b> <p/> <br>★ The narrative text is poetic and full of emotion. . . . the mixed-media illustrations are breathtaking, created through painting, drawing, photography, and embroidery. The joyous imagination and intricacy of each illustration will make readers of all ages explore them further. . . . --<b><i>Booklist</i>, Starred Review<br></b> <p/><i>Dreamers </i>is a paean to libraries, to reading and writing and creativity, a value statement I endorse wholeheartedly. <i>Dreamers </i>aims for the glorious and the poetic; it's big, passionate, crammed with detail.<b>--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> <br><b><i><br></i></b> ★ The magical art marries the succinct and powerful narrative in a resplendent celebration of literacy, language, and the transformative power of the picture book form . . . This excellent memoir encapsulates the fears, hopes, and dreams that come along with immigrating to a new place . . . A timely and much-needed selection.--<b><i>School Library Journal</i>, Starred Review</b> <p/> ★ Every page of <i>Dreamers</i> vibrates with energy, depicting the emotions, the turmoil, the stress and the joy that come with creating a new life.--<b><i>Shelf Awareness</i>, Starred Review</b> <p/> ★ The gently hopeful text offers its best optimism when rooted in Morales' own experience. The immersive magical reality of the art is the real glory here; the mixed-media illustrations, including acrylic paint, drawing, and bits of collage, are full-bleed spreads that depict the library as a milieu every bit as startling and novel to the speaker as the U.S. itself.--<b><i>The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books</i>, Starred Review</b> <p/>★ A wise book and, to praise it in its own words, 'resplendent, ' an eloquent vision of the 'resilience' and 'hope' of the 'dreamers, soñadores of the world.'--<b><i>The Horn Book Magazine, </i>Starred Review</b> <p/>Morales tells, through illustrations that seem to dance and sing, the story of crossing borders on a bridge of language with her young son. Together they discover picture books and public libraries, and the gifts they brought with them -- open hearts, art, poetry and stories -- blossom.<b>--<i>The Washington Post, </i>Best Books of 2018</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Born in Xalapa, Mexico, where she currently resides, Yuyi Morales lived for many years in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she still maintains close relations with booksellers and librarians. Professional storyteller, dancer, choreographer, puppeteer, and artist, she has won the prestigious Pura Belpré Award for Illustration an unprecedented six times, for <i>Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book</i> (2003), <i>Los Gatos Black on Halloween</i> (2006), <i>Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book </i>(2008), <i>Niño Wrestles the World </i>(2013), <i>Viva Frida</i> (2014), also a Caldecott Honor Book, and <i>Dreamers/Soñadores</i> (2018).
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