La Bloga: Living To Tell the Story: The Authentic Latino Immigrant Experience in Picture Books Part 5
Tagged: blog, book, family, Juan Felipe Herrera, parentsPosted on: May 14th, 2007“The Upside Down Boy/ El niño de cabeza is Juan Felipe Herreras memoir of the year his migrant family moved to the city so that he could go to school for the first time. Neither of his parents had the opportunity to complete school, but valued the importance of education. Juanito is not an immigrant himself but his parents are. However, he has grown up singing and speaking Spanish with his parents, friends and neighbors. When he comes to school, he enters into a different strange world. “
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