{"id":25332,"date":"2014-04-22T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=25332"},"modified":"2014-04-24T17:16:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T17:16:31","slug":"migrant-by-jose-manuel-mateo-illustrated-by-javier-martinez-pedro-translated-by-emmy-smith-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/migrant-by-jose-manuel-mateo-illustrated-by-javier-martinez-pedro-translated-by-emmy-smith-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant by Jos\u00e9 Manuel Mateo, illustrated by Javier Mart\u00ednez Pedro, translated by Emmy Smith Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/04\/Migrant-Martinez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/04\/Migrant-Martinez-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Migrant Martinez\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25333\" \/><\/a>Imagine a long scroll, that unfolds like\u00a0a fan or an accordion. Each panel, when finally open, reveals a single, elongated picture, with sparse text to illuminate the densely populated illustration\u00a0filled with mountains, animals, plants, people, that give way to trains, police cars, fences, highways, and a concrete jungle. On one side, the story flows\u00a0in English. Gently flip it over, and you&#8217;ll find the same story in Spanish. More than a flat\u00a0&#8216;book,&#8217; <em>Migrant<\/em> is a uniquely unexpected, spectacularly composed art piece.<\/p>\n<p>In a Mexican village that sits somewhere between the mountains and sea, a young boy plays hide-and-seek with his sister and dog.\u00a0On the large farm where his\u00a0father grows\u00a0watermelons and papaya trees, the work is quickly disappearing. First Se\u00f1or Augusto leaves, and then &#8220;the rest of the men who were farming did the same, because there was not enough money to continue planting.&#8221;\u00a0The\u00a0father ventures out, until &#8220;no one remained in town but the women and us children.&#8221; In desperation, the left-behind threesome take a dangerous journey north to Los Angeles\u00a0in search of work and any news of the\u00a0father&#8217;s whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>As familiar as the immigration story might be, the presentation here is unforgettable. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abramsbooks.com\/Books\/Migrant-9781419709579.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here for a stunning preview.<\/a>] The ending &#8220;Author&#8217;s and Artist&#8217;s Note&#8221; explains that\u00a0<em>Migrant<\/em> was\u00a0inspired by the ancient Mesoamerican art of making\u00a0paper from tree bark, called <em>amate<\/em>, on which stories were created in drawings or hieroglyphs.\u00a0The long-ago Mesoamericans used a\u00a0continuous sheet of amate that was gathered in folds rather than bound together as\u00a0separate pages: &#8220;It&#8217;s called a codex,&#8221; the note explains.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the artistic context is a difficult overview of children who migrate north, sometimes without parents, in official numbers of about 50,000 a year. &#8220;They leave because of poverty, mistreatment, or violence,&#8221; but then must survive, all too often, even more\u00a0difficult challenges getting to and living safely\u00a0the other side of the border. &#8220;We seek not only to raise awareness but, above all, to safeguard [the children&#8217;s]\u00a0memory. We wish to tell and to question this collective story that makes children defenseless and almost nonexistent to their own country and to the new one where they hope to find work.&#8221; Artist Javier Marti\u0301nez Pedro, according to his bio, is especially aware of the plight of these forgotten children, because &#8220;he himself at one point illegally migrated to the Unites States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[W]e have created this book: to demand these children&#8217;s right to exist.&#8221; The\u00a0resonating amate speaks volumes, bearing witness to young migrants risking all to seek hope-filled new lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2011 (Mexico), 2014 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a long scroll, that unfolds like\u00a0a fan or an accordion. 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