Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish by Herrera, Juan Felipe

Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish

From U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, one of the most prominent Chicano poets writing today, here...
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Author: Juan Felipe Herrera
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Language: Spanish
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Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish by Herrera, Juan Felipe

Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish

$47.53

Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish

$47.53
Author: Juan Felipe Herrera
Format: Hardcover
Language: Spanish

From U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, one of the most prominent Chicano poets writing today, here are poems like sweet music

Awarded the Pura Belpré Honor for this book, Herrera writes in both Spanish and English about the joy and laughter and sometimes the confusion of growing up in an upside-down, jumbled-up world--between two cultures, two homes.

With a crazy maraca beat, Herrera creates poetry as rich and vibrant as mole de olé and pineapple tamales...an aroma of papaya...a clear soup with strong garlic, so you will grow, not disappear. Herrera's words show us what it means to laugh out loud until it feels like flying.

Juan Felipe Herrera's vibrant poems dance across these pages in a dazzling explosion of two languages, English and Spanish. Skillfully crafted, beautiful, joyful, fun, the poems are paired with whimsical black-and-white drawings by Karen Barbour. The resulting collage fills the soul and celebrates a life lived between two cultures.

Laughing out loud, I fly, toward the good things, to catch Mamá Lucha on the sidewalk, afterschool, waiting for the green-striped bus, on the side of the neighborhood store, next to almonds, José's tiny wooden mule, the wise boy from San Diego, teeth split apart, like mine in the coppery afternoon . . .



Author: Juan Felipe Herrera
Publisher: Harperteen
Published: 04/04/1998
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.26h x 5.93w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9780060276041
Language: Spanish
Audience: Young Adult


Award: Pura Belpre Award - Honor Book


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 05/01/1998 pg. 156
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1998 pg. 370 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Kirkus Review - Children 05/15/1998 pg. 738
ALA Notable Children's Books 01/01/2000 pg. 1342
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1998 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author
Barbour, Karen: -

Karen Barbour has illustrated many books for children, including You Were Loved Before You Were Born; Fire! Fire! Hurry! Hurry!; I Have an Olive Tree; and Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems, which was a Parents' Choice Gold Award winner. She wrote and illustrated Little Nino's Pizzeria, a Reading Rainbow selection. Her paintings have been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Rome. She lives in Point Reyes Station, California.

Herrera, Juan Felipe: -

Juan Felipe Herrera is the U.S. Poet Laureate and was inspired by the fire-speakers of the early Chicano Movement and by heavy exposure to various poetry, jazz, and blues performance streams. His published works include 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007; Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream; Mayan Drifter: Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of the Americas; Thunderweavers/Tejedoras de Rayos; Laughing Out Loud, I Fly, a Pura Belpré Honor Book; Américas Award winners Crashboomlove and Cinnamon Girl; Calling the Doves, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award; and Upside Down Boy, which was adapted into a musical. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship and previously served as California Poet Laureate. He has taught at both California State University, Fresno and University of California, Riverside and held the Tomás Rivera endowed chair in creative writing. He lives in Fresno, California.

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