Margarita Engle

Bravo!

Poems about Amazing Hispanics
Illustrator: López, Rafael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot-the Latinos featured in Bravo!, by author Margarita Engle and illustrator Rafael López, come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds. Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a collective history and a community that continues to evolve and thrive today! Biographical poems include: Aida de Acosta, Arnold Rojas, Baruj Benacerraf, César Chávez, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, Félix Varela, George Meléndez, José Martí, Juan de Miralles, Juana Briones, Julia de Burgos, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Paulina Pedroso, Pura Belpré, Roberto Clemente, Tito Puente, Ynes Mexia, Tomás Rivera. Bravo! también está disponible en edición en español.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt & Company
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 240mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780805098761
• ISBN-10: 0805098763
• Artikelnr.: 44608337

Autorenporträt

Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels, memoirs, and picture books, including The Surrender Tree, All the Way to Havana, Bravo!, Drum Dream Girl, and Dancing Hands. Awards include a Newbery Honor, Pura Belpré Medals, Golden Kite Award, Walter Honor, Jane Addams Award, PEN U.S.A., and NSK Neustadt Prize, among others. Margarita served as the national 2017-2019 Young People¿s Poet Laureate. Recent young adult verse novels include Wings in the Wild and Wild Dreamers. Recent picture books include Water Day and The Sculptors of Light. Margarita was born in Los Angeles, but developed a deep attachment to her mother¿s homeland during childhood summers with relatives on the island. She studied agronomy and botany along with creative writing, and now lives in central California. www.margaritaengle.com Facebook: Margarita Engle Twitter: @margaritapoet Instagram: @engle.margarita