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Cargando... Migrant: The Journey of a Mexican Workerpor José Manuel Mateo
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This unusual and sophisticated picture book is a long, continuous, accordion-style foldout that recounts the journey of a Mexican farming family as they travel the dangerous trek to the United States. Written in both English and Spanish, with careful detail in black and white pictures filled with hundreds of scenarios that depict this dangerous and uncertain migration. Foldout book, Author and Artist notes. Visually intricate, Pedro’s single, large, black and white illustration is published in codex format (in homage to Mesoamerican history), with Mateo’s story in Spanish on one side, English on the other. The accordion-fold pages mimic the physical complexities of a boy and his mother and sister’s journey north from rural Mexico. The boy’s perspective reveals the emotional complexity underlying his family’s risk-filled decision. This quietly powerful narrative ends with an author’s & artist’s note reminding the reader that, “When they migrate, the children cannot themselves legally prove their name…. For this reason, we have created this book: to demand these children’s right to exist.” Visually intricate, Pedro’s single, large, black and white illustration is published in codex format (in homage to Mesoamerican history), with Mateo’s story in Spanish on one side, English on the other. The accordion-fold pages mimic the physical complexities of a boy and his mother and sister’s journey north from rural Mexico. The boy’s perspective reveals the emotional complexity underlying his family’s risk-filled decision. This quietly powerful narrative ends with an author’s & artist’s note reminding the reader that, “When they migrate, the children cannot themselves legally prove their name…. For this reason, we have created this book: to demand these children’s right to exist.” The design of this book is beautiful, although I wouldn't really trust a child with it because it seems a little fragile. The actions of the overall picture depicts the life of a migrant child, in a form called Codex. Rather than using separate pages, one long sheet is used and gathered into an accordion fold. In this book, one side is written in Spanish, and the other is translated into English. The issue of immigration is largely misunderstood. Some people defend their apprehensions about it by noting the competition for jobs that immigrants bring. The reality is that many people enter our country illegally to escape the poverty, mistreatment, and violence within their own countries. Still, illegal immigrants are forced to hide in the country in which they seek refuge. The construction of this book deliberately aims to represent the right for migrant children to exist rather than disappear simply because their illegal statuses limit their abilities to gain legal documentation. A Mexican boy tells of his journey to the U.S. with his family, including the many dangers they face to cross the border and the uncertainty they experience as illegal immigrants. The bilingual narrative is accompanied by one long, beautifully vivid illustration replicating pre-Hispanic codices and bound as an accordion-style foldout frieze. A magnificent work of art. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"En una peque? parcela de tierra en Mx?ico, un ni? y su hermana corren y juegan en los campos mientras su madre y su padre cultivan. Todo esto cambia, sin embargo, cuando los hombres de la aldea, incluido el padre del ni?, se ven obligados a buscar trabajo al norte de la frontera, en los Estados Unidos. A solas y sin forma de ganarse la vida, la madre del ni? decide que la familia debe hacer el peligroso viaje al otro lado de la frontera en busca de trabajo y el padre del ni? "- Blurb de la hoja adjunta."On a small plot of land in Mexico, a young boy and his sister run and play in the fields while their mother and father farm. All this changes, though, when the men of the village, including the boy's father, are forced to seek work north of the border, in the United States. Left alone with no way to make a living, the boy's mother decides that the family must make the dangerous journey across the border in search of both work and the boy's father"--Blurb from accompanying sheet.Una imagen continua de Javier Martn?ez Pedro est ?impresa en offset en ambos lados de dos hojas adjuntas, acompa?da por una narracin? de Jos ?Manuel Mateo en el original en espa?l por un lado, y traducida al ingl por Emmy Smith Ready por el otro. Las hojas adjuntas se juntan en un pliegue de acorden? y se unen a un pa? negro sobre tablas a cada lado. Una etiqueta de papel se adjunta a la placa frontal. Cierre de cinta negra. Publicado con una hoja impresa con informacin? de publicacin?, publicidad e informacin? publicitaria. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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