'Donde va a parar?

by Julia Alvarez, Rhina P. Espaillat (Translator), Sabra Field (Illustrator)

Overview

Bestselling novelist (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) and children's (The Tia Lola Stories) author Julia Alvarez's new Spanish-language picture book is a beautifully crafted poem for children that gently addresses the emotional side of death. The book asks, "When somebody dies, where do they go? / Do they go where the wind goes when it blows? ... Do they wink back at me when I wish on a star? Do they whisper, 'You're perfect, just as you are'? ..." Illustrated by Vermont woodcut artist, Sabra Field, ¿Donde va a parar?, is a beautiful and comforting meditation on death, asking questions young readers of Spanish might have about what happens to those they love after they die.

The English language version of this book, Where Do They Go?, is available in hardcover.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609807177
Publisher:	Seven Stories Press
Publication date:	11/08/2016
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	93,744
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)
Language:	Spanish
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

JULIA ALVAREZ is the author of numerous books for adults including Return to Sender, In the Time of the Butterflies, and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, which was picked by New York librarians as one of 21 classic for the 21st century. She is also an accomplished writer of children's books including The Tia Lola Stories and Before We Were Free, which was an ALA Best Book of 2002 and winner of ALA's Pura Belpre Award. She is Writer in Residence at Middlebury College, and co-founder with Bill Eichner of Alta Gracia, a sustainable coffee farm and literacy center in the Dominican Republic.  And she is a founding member of Border of Lights, an ongoing movement to promote peace and collaboration between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. She lives in Vermont.

Hometown:

Middlebury, Vermont

Date of Birth:

March 27, 1950

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., Middlebury College, 1971; M.F.A., Syracuse University, 1975