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BookDragon Raúl Colón Tag

Light for All by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Raúl Colón [in Shelf Awareness]

10 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Latina/o/x, Nonfiction, Repost

Young People's Poet Laureate Margarita Engle (Your Heart, My Sky) masterfully blends inspiring symbolism with sobering reality in Light for All, a picture book that both celebrates and exposes the hardships of the immigrant experience. Pura Belpré Award-winning illustrator Raúl Colón (Imagine!) splendidly fills the pages with...

Miguel’s Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Raul Colón [in Shelf Awareness]

17 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Cuban American, European, Latina/o/x, Nonfiction, Poetry, Puerto Rican, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Miguel de Cervantes survived his onerous childhood – his gambler father's imprisonments, his family's constant fleeing from debtors – by losing himself in stories. Inspired by his mother's tales, "dazzling plays," and "storytellers on street corners," Miguel imagines he will someday conjure his own...

Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine by Heather Lang, illustrated by Raúl Colón [in Booklist]

11 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Latina/o/x, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW It’s true: “When Ruth Law made up her mind, there was no use trying to stop her.” With tenacious aplomb, Law announced that she would fly from Chicago to New York in one day – a distance, in 1916, that had never before been...

Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes by Juan Felipe Herrera, illustrated by Raúl Colón

25 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

It's National Hispanic Heritage Month ...

America the Beautiful: Together We Stand by Katharine Lee Bates, illustrated by Bryan Collier, Raúl Colón, Diane Goode, Mary GrandPré, John Hendrix, Yuyi Morales, Jon J. Muth, LeUyen Pham, Sonia Lynn Sadler, and Chris Soentpiet

01 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Poetry

Ready to ring in the new year? Sing with me now – I'm pretty sure you know the words to this one: "O beautiful for spacious skies ...

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