Xochitl and the Flowers / Xochitl, la Nina de Las Flores
by Jorge Argueta; Illustrated by Carl Angel

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ISBN-10:   0892391812
ISBN-13:   9780892391813
Publisher:   Lee & Low; Children's Book Press
Category:   Spanish Books, Picture Books
Pub. Date:   June 2003
Pages:   32
Format:   Hardcover; Cloth over boards
Ages:   6 and UP


Awards
( NO  Independent Publisher Book Awards  Nominee/Honoree 
2004  Independent Publisher Book Awards ( IPPYs ) (USA)  Nominee/Honoree 


Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
GARDENING_FICTION
SAN FRANCISCO (CALIF.)_FICTION
BILINGUAL BOOKS_SPANISH-ENGLISH


Description/Notes
Xochitl and her family, newly arrived in San Francisco from El Salvador, create a beautiful plant nursery in place of the garbage heap behind their apartment, and celebrate with their friends and neighbors.
Cuando las familias deciden abandonar su lugar de origen, asumen un tremendo riesgo. La emigraci?n podr?a comenzar siendo un proceso sencillo, para terminar por estremecer las bases que sostienen esa estructura b?sica de convivencia. Los hijos podr?an resultar emocionalmente lastimados si no se les acompa?a con sabidur?a en este proceso. La situaci?n ser?, en cualquier caso, desgarradora. Cualquier soluci?n colectiva se agradece. En algunos pa?ses las personas se agrupan y apoyan entre s?, creando un clima de convivencia y colaboraci?n vecinal que favorecer? el cambio. Este libro se fundamenta en esa realidad al relatarnos lo que sucedi? con la familia de Xochiti; salvadore?os reci?n llegados a San Francisco, quienes asumen de una manera original y hermosa la voluntad de no ser sobrepasados por la nostalgia del cambio.
In this English-Spanish bilingual story by the award-winning author of 'A Movie in My Pillow,' a girl misses her friends, family and garden after she moves from El Salvador to San Francisco.
Miles away from their home in El Salvador, Xochitl (Soh-cheel) and her family make a home in America. Xochitl misses her family’s small flower business and garden back home. By selling flowers on the street the Flores family begin to make friends with their new neighbors. But it is not until the family decides to start a nursery that Xochitl learns the value of community. Award-winning writer Jorge Argueta has crafted a moving story about a family’s determination to set down roots and about their child’s blooming in a new environment. Carl Angel’s artwork splendidly documents this quintessentially American immigration story.
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