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Pura Belpre Books, Del Sol BooksAuthor : Juan Felipe Herrera, Illustrator : Karen Barbour
5th Grade and up

Laughing Out Loud I Fly

Del Sol Books, Get The Complete SetLaughing Out Loud I Fly, Hardcover, Bilingual, Book, Juan Felipe Herrera, Karen Barbour, 5th Grade and up, 9780060276041, $16.99

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Laughing Out Loud I Fly, Del Sol BooksPura Belpre Award Honor Book in 2000 for Narrative

From one of the most prominent Chicano poets writing today, here are poems like sweet music-to make the body shake and move to the rhythm of rhyme, to the pulse of words. Juan Felipe Herrera writes in both Spanish and English about the joy and laughter and sometimes the confusion of growing up in an upside-down, jumbled-up world-between two cultures, two homes. With a crazy maraca beat, Herrera creates poetry as rich and vibrant as mole de ole and pineapple tamales...an aroma of papaya...a clear soup with strong garlic, so you will grow not disappear Herrera's words are hot& peppery, good for you. They show us what it means to laugh out loud until it feel like flying.  Juan Felipe Herrera's vibrant poems dance across these pages in a dazzling explosion of two languages English and Spanish. Skillfully crafted, beautiful, joyful, fun, the poems are paired with whimsical black and white drawings by Karen Barbour. The resulting collage fills the soul and the senses hot and peppery, good for you and celebrates a life lived between two cultures.Laughing out loud, I fly, toward the good things, to catch Mama Lucha on the sidewalk, afterschool, waiting for the green-striped bus,on the side of the neighborhood store, next to almonds, Jose's tiny wooden mule, the wiseboy from San Diego, teeth split apart, like mine in the coppery afternoon . . .

School Library Journal : Grade 6 Up, Juan Felipe Herrera has written a series of poems in both English and Spanish celebrating his childhood. The poet sizes up life, observes what's around him, revels in its tastes and smellsA"I am a monkey cartoon or a chile tamal, crazy/with paisley patches, infinite flavors cinnamon &/banana ice cream, it's 3 in the afternoon...." Barbour's black-and-white drawings accompany each poem, delicately underlining its images but allowing the strong sensuality of the words to seep into readers' minds. To read the collection is to come to know the narrator who carries "the sun in my pocket, playing the gold violin/a seven-stringed branch of water & bronze...." Laughing Out Loud, I Fly joins a growing number of English/Spanish poetry collections for young people, such as Lori Carlson's Cool Salsa (Holt, 1994) and Naomi Shihab Nye's The Tree Is Older Than You Are (S & S, 1995). It offers selections from a poet's heart to savor again and again.

Kirkus Reviews : Citing Picasso's Hunk of Skin as his inspiration, Herrera (Calling the Doves/El Canto de las Palomas, 1995) offers 22 poems in facing English and Spanish versions, printed over Barbour's pale, floating figures of images from Mexican folk art. Subordinating meaning to sound and rhythm, the poet writes in quick, breathless phrases that sometimes read like random lists``I own many socks, some with wings/others Alexandrines, 6 of white beaches/ . . . & 1 skin-diving pig, `Where are my sockos?' as Papi says,/one tambourine socko for your flower-vase head.'' Literalists may flounder, but the music comes through clearly, especially in the Spanish: `` `Dnde estn mis calcetas?' como dice Papi,/una calceta de pandereta para tu maceta.'' The voice is a child's, and while references to places in Mexico, California, and the Southwestas well as Chechnya and Sarajevoflicker past, it's food and family, spices, pets, and friends that recur. This is poetry to read aloud, to read quickly, to understand more with the heart than with the head. (Poetry. 12-14)

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