Yo soy Rene el nino - I Am Rene the Boy, Del Sol Books

Author : Raquel Benatar, Fernando Molinari
Preschool - 2nd Grade

Isabel Allende Recuerdos para un cuento - Isabel Allende Memories for a Story

Isabel Allende Recuerdos para un cuento - Isabel Allende Memories for a Story, Hardcover, Bilingual, Book, Raquel Benatar, Fernando Molinari, 1558853790, # 10193h, $15.95

An informative bilingual biography for children

Isabel was a lonely girl. She would hide in the basement of her grandparents' home in Santiago, Chile. In that dark and musty space, she played among the aged family photos and abandoned furniture. Among the cobwebs, the young Isabel read dust-covered books, through which she discovered the silken threads of fantastical stories, threads that would one day inform the novels of a legendary writer. Isabel Allende: Recuerdos para un cuento/Isabel Allende: Memories for a Story gives readers a glimpse of Isabel Allende's childhood influences. Benatar offers a vivid picture of a unique childhood: bewitched by the séances of her grandmother, enlivened by her own adventurous spirit, and haunted by the silence that descended upon the house after the death of a loved one. With the passage of time, Isabel became the keeper of the family memories, memories that come alive in her writing. This intriguing bilingual picture book not only introduces young readers to the life of an important author of our time but also demonstrates how they, too, can use their experiences to write their own family stories.

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School Library Journal : Grade 3-5–Allende's books exert a magical charm, and her strange, spirit-inhabited world has an ineffable pull. This simple picture-book biography explains clearly that the source of the writer's stories lies in her unorthodox childhood. Raised in an extended family household run by her eccentric grandmother, who believed that she could contact the spirits, the imaginative and solitary Isabel was enthralled with the woman's "magical world." Given the relative freedom of home, she found the strict schools she attended a challenge. Though reclusive by nature, she was a rebel at these institutions, and moved from school to school. The brief evocative text outlines the author's life and influences–trips to the seashore, her teen years alone with her grandfather, and marriage and a move to the United States. The colored-pencil illustrations, done in shades of green and gray, are detailed and intriguing, ably communicating a sense of the mysterious. The English translation moves as briskly as the Spanish original and is easy to read aloud. An excellent introduction to Allende and a look at the roots of the creative process.

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