El camino de Amelia - Amelias Road, Del Sol Books

Author : Linda Jacobs Altman, Illustrator : Enrique O. Sanchez
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade

El camino de Amelia
Amelias Road

El camino de Amelia, Softcover, Spanish, Book, Linda Jacobs Altman, Enrique O. Sanchez, Kindergarten - 3rd Grade, 9781880000106, # 7101s, $7.95
El camino de Amelia, Hardcover, Spanish, Book, Linda Jacobs Altman, Enrique O. Sanchez, Kindergarten - 3rd Grade, 9781880000076, # 7101h, $16.95
Amelias Road, Softcover, English, Book, Linda Jacobs Altman, Enrique O. Sanchez, Kindergarten - 3rd Grade, 9781880000274, # 7102s, $7.95
Amelias Road, Hardcover, English, Book, Linda Jacobs Altman, Enrique O. Sanchez, Kindergarten - 3rd Grade, 9781880000045, # 7102h, $16.95

El camino de Amelia - Amelias Road "Editor's Choice", San Francisco Chronicle
"Choices", Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)

A girl from a migrant worker family overcomes the hardship of moving by creating a special place for herself.

Amelia Luisa Martinez hates roads. Los caminos, the roads, take her migrant worker family to fields where they labor all day, to schools where no one knows Amelia's name, and to bleak cabins that are not home.

Amelia longs for a beautiful white house with a fine shade tree in the yard, where she can live without worrying about los caminos again. Then one day, Amelia discovers an "accidental road." At its end she finds an amazing old tree reminiscent of the one in her dreams. Its stately sense of permanence inspires her to put her own roots down in a very special way.

The richly colored illustrations bring to life the landscape of California's Central Valley farmland. Amelia's Road is an inspirational tale about the importance of home.

Listen to Vienna Rose read Amelia's Road to you. A marvelous example of the magical encounter between a child and books that we wish for all children.

"An important title for any library serving migrant populations, Amelia's Road should be a welcome addition almost anywhere. Useful in a variety of educational units, it works equally well as a read-aloud or read-alone." –SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

"A spare, unsentimental, empathetic picture of a quietly courageous child making the best of difficult necessity. Sanchez provides handsome acrylic paintings in a monumental, fresco-like style that emphasizes these characters' dignity and humanity." –KIRKUS REVIEWS

"What will stay with kids is the physical sense of what it's like to work and move all the time... The yearning in the story is palpable: the dream of what many long for and others take for granted––a settled home, white and tidy, with a fine old shade tree growing in the yard. Security." –BOOKLIST

El camino de Amelia - Amelias Road "Altman's first picture book provides an affecting and ultimately hopeful look at a transient way of living that will be unfamiliar to most of her audience. Sanchez's richly textured acrylic paintings deftly portray the arduous daily routine of migrant workers as well as the wide range of Amelia's emotions." –PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"The book draws a dramatic and realistic picture of the lifestyle and struggles of migrant farm workers and their families. Beautifully illustrated." –MULTICULTURAL GUIDE, Board of Education of the City of New York

"Altman's story is convincing and believable, making readers feel they're getting a realistic peek into the lives of migrant farm workers." –SMALL PRESS