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Hardcover When I Get Older: The Story Behind Wavin' Flag Book

ISBN: 1770493026

ISBN13: 9781770493025

When I Get Older: The Story Behind Wavin' Flag

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Somali-Canadian poet, rapper, singer and songwriter K'naan tells his own story. When the Somali Civil War began in 1991, K'naan was just thirteen. His mother made the difficult decision to move her family so that they could grow up in safety. First in New York and then in Toronto, K'naan faced many challenges. Like so many other immigrants, he had to make a place for himself in a world of alien customs, clothes, and language. His road was a hard one and he lost many friends to violence.

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Rated 5 stars
Superb Bilingual Children's Book about a Major World Literary Figure

I wish there were more bilingual children's books like this superb story for children about the life of Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945). I am a university professor of Latin American Literature, and I have been teaching Mistral's poetry to university students for more than 15 years. She is typically one of my students' favorite poets, and I have found that many of her...

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Culture and Story

It is a pleasure to find a book in two languages that is so well done. The story is interesting and the illustrations are wonderful. Learning about a person, her background, and her talent is just the type of book we need to encourage children to read. It is my pleasure as a teacher to recommend this little treasure! Cecilia Armas

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Story about a story teller

I bought this and a few other Luna Rising books for my students in Spanish one and two. The fact that they are bilingual makes them less intimidating. The illustrations are wonderful and they get a sort of mini biography of someone important in Latin American literature. Gabriela Mistral was also a children's and women's rights advocate although that is not heavily covered in the story they do tell you that she traveled the...

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A Great Poetess

This picture book is a wonderful book who shows us through colorful illustrations the story of a great poetess, Gabriela Mistral. As a Chilean and bilingual teacher, I am honor to read this book to my children and students.

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Great book with English and Spanish!

Gabriela Mistral is the name Lucila Godoy Alcayaga gave to herself because she liked the sound of it. And this is her story; the story of the first Latin American writer (she was born in Chile) to receive (in 1945) the Nobel Prize for Literature. Monica Brown has successfully created a tribute to a woman that not only entertains children with the lyrical words of the story but also educates them about an historical figure...

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