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Gateways to the Sun: poetry #4
Flying Dragon
Poems by Jose Coronel Urtecho, Jose Emilio Gonzalez, Maria Elena Walsh, Jose Juan Tablada, Jose Marti, and Marina Romero are richly illustrated by artists Felipe Davalos, Rapi Diego, among others.
- GenresSpanish LiteraturePoetry
32 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
About the author
Alma Flor Ada
681 books189 followers(http://facebook.com/almaflorada)
Dr. Ada was the founder and First Editor in Chief of :
NABE, Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education
She has been active for many years in various professional associations including : IRA, International Reading Association
CRA, California Reading Association
CABE, California Association for Bilingual Education
USIBBY, US Branch of the International Board of Books for Young People
She is a member of :
Advisory Board of Loose Leaf Public Radio Programs
National Television Workshop
Between the Lines
Reading Up!, Natural Head Start Association
A frequent speaker at national and international conferences, Dr. Ada also works in school districts with children, teachers and parents.
The award-winning author of numerous children’s books and a prolific translator, Alma Flor Ada is a leading mentor and philosopher of bilingual education in the United States.
She has authored several reading programs, among them two Spanish reading programs :
Cielo abierto (K-6)
Vamos de fiesta! (K-3)
and of two English reading programs :
Signatures (K-6)
Collections (K- 6)
and is a series consultant for Relatos de la historia (1-5), a Spanish social studies program developed by Harcourt School Publishers.
Among her most substantive contributions to the transmission of Hispanic culture to children are :
Música amiga, a program for learning through songs, published by Del Sol Books
Puertas al Sol - Pathways to the Sun, published by Santillana
Latino poetry, Art, and Biographies for children, published by Santillana
Dr. Ada received her Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Lima, Perú and did post-doctoral research at Harvard University as a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute and a Fulbright Research Scholar.
Dr. Ada was the founder and First Editor in Chief of :
NABE, Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education
She has been active for many years in various professional associations including : IRA, International Reading Association
CRA, California Reading Association
CABE, California Association for Bilingual Education
USIBBY, US Branch of the International Board of Books for Young People
She is a member of :
Advisory Board of Loose Leaf Public Radio Programs
National Television Workshop
Between the Lines
Reading Up!, Natural Head Start Association
A frequent speaker at national and international conferences, Dr. Ada also works in school districts with children, teachers and parents.
The award-winning author of numerous children’s books and a prolific translator, Alma Flor Ada is a leading mentor and philosopher of bilingual education in the United States.
She has authored several reading programs, among them two Spanish reading programs :
Cielo abierto (K-6)
Vamos de fiesta! (K-3)
and of two English reading programs :
Signatures (K-6)
Collections (K- 6)
and is a series consultant for Relatos de la historia (1-5), a Spanish social studies program developed by Harcourt School Publishers.
Among her most substantive contributions to the transmission of Hispanic culture to children are :
Música amiga, a program for learning through songs, published by Del Sol Books
Puertas al Sol - Pathways to the Sun, published by Santillana
Latino poetry, Art, and Biographies for children, published by Santillana
Dr. Ada received her Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Lima, Perú and did post-doctoral research at Harvard University as a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute and a Fulbright Research Scholar.
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July 3, 2016
An enlightening & entertaining look at several individual poets (including mini-bios) from several specific Latin American countries. Of the four books in this set, this is obviously for the oldest children. Some of the poems are quite challenging.
Alma Flor Ada is always wonderful, and this is enjoyable for all, but:
Especially for ESL classrooms that have primarily students whose first language is New World Spanish. To be paired with an almost identical book that is in Spanish. A large paperback with a stiff cover, suitable for reading like a Big Book with a small class or group.
Bright cheerful colors, with images that are sometimes joyfully surreal, and verses relevant generally to young immigrants' happiest and most hopeful experiences. A few poems are tinged with melancholy. There are even some that reference history, and a few Haiku! The collected traditional poems are fascinating for scholars of English children's lit. as they include cumulative verse and a counting-out rhyme that seem awfully familiar....
The verses didn't seem especially graceful to me, though it probably is the fault of the translation; I'll try to remember to check the companion book when I go back to the local college library from which I got this. Poetry is, of course, *very* difficult to translate. Better to read this in the original Spanish, or better yet in both, side-by-side, imo.
Alma Flor Ada is always wonderful, and this is enjoyable for all, but:
Especially for ESL classrooms that have primarily students whose first language is New World Spanish. To be paired with an almost identical book that is in Spanish. A large paperback with a stiff cover, suitable for reading like a Big Book with a small class or group.
Bright cheerful colors, with images that are sometimes joyfully surreal, and verses relevant generally to young immigrants' happiest and most hopeful experiences. A few poems are tinged with melancholy. There are even some that reference history, and a few Haiku! The collected traditional poems are fascinating for scholars of English children's lit. as they include cumulative verse and a counting-out rhyme that seem awfully familiar....
The verses didn't seem especially graceful to me, though it probably is the fault of the translation; I'll try to remember to check the companion book when I go back to the local college library from which I got this. Poetry is, of course, *very* difficult to translate. Better to read this in the original Spanish, or better yet in both, side-by-side, imo.
March 2, 2015
With a little help from my friend the dictionario, I was able to navigate these poems for children and even to pick up a bit of idiom with which to dazzle, maybe, the kindergartners (quizá, quizás si; quizá, quizás no).
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