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Cargando... Te Con Leche (1999)por Allen Say
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A little girl in San Francisco is raised by her Japanese parents, who call her Masako; at home she speaks Japanese with them and drinks green tea, while at school and at friends' houses, she is called May and drinks tea with milk and sugar. When Masako/May graduates high school, she wants to go to college, but her parents want to return to Japan, where she has to attend high school all over again. They try to arrange a marriage for her, but she refuses; she goes to Osaka, finds a job at a department store, and makes her own way. Eventually she meets a man called Joseph; they become friends, and when he is transferred to a different city, she goes with him and they marry. "I was their first child," the narrator reveals. ( ) This is a great book of a girl named May who is Japanese but was born and raised in America. Her parents moved back Japan and her entire life changed. Things were different and strange to her. Her parents moved back because they didn't want to be foreigners anymore in America, but now she feels like a foreigner in Japan! The food is different the cloths is strange, women don't drive everything is just different. This is a great story about the effects of moving may have on children and the issues that they may face. Great story told by the daughter of May. Excellent realistic drawing of the characters. At home in San Francisco, May speaks Japanese and the family eats rice and miso soup and drinks green tea. When she visits her friends' homes, she eats fried chicken and spaghetti. May plans someday to go to college and live in an apartment of her own. But when her family moves back to Japan, she soon feels lost and homesick for America. In Japan everyone calls her by her Japanese name, Masako. She has to wear kimonos and sit on the floor. Poor May is sure that she will never feel at home in this country. Eventually May is expected to marry and a matchmaker is hired. Outraged at the thought, May sets out to find her own way in the big city of Osaka. Allen Say has created a moving tribute to his parents and their path to discovering where home really is. (amazon) This book really shows the emotion immigrants feel when they move to a new county. It talks about how May felt out of place even though she moved back to the country of her ethnicity. It is a great book to show that even though things may be tough at first, everyone finds their place everywhere they live. Not many books are written about children immigrating out of the US; therefore, it is a book that catches your attention from the beginning. This book could be very beneficial especially for ELL. They can relate to what May is feeling having mixed emotions about her home country and America. It is about a young girl that lives in San Francisco, May speaks Japanese and the family eats rice and soup and drinks green tea. When she visits her friends' homes, she eats fried chicken and spaghetti. May plans someday to go to college and live in an apartment of her own. But when her family moves back to Japan, she soon feels lost and homesick for America. She will be expected to marry a matchmaker and frightened and discouraged by this thought she decides to move along the city of Osaka alone. Age Range: 4 - 7 years, Grade Level: Preschool - 3
Hazel Rochman (Booklist, March 15, 1999 (Vol. 95, No. 14)) On the title page of Say's new picture book, there is a small frame from his Caldecott-winning Grandfather's Journey (1993), a picture of his mother, Masako, as a Japanese American child in California. Say tells her immigrant story: how, when she finished high school in California, her restless, homesick father took the family back to live in his village in Japan. Masako becomes a foreigner in her parents' country, longing for home in San Francisco. Instead of college, she has to go back to high school to learn Japanese. She must learn to be a "proper" Japanese lady. Say's watercolors are quieter in line and color this time, and the text is much longer. Together, they tell an elemental story that will appeal to everyone who feels a stranger at home. The pictures of Masako show her sad and wooden, bound up in a kimono, kneeling on the floor, or walking alone in the empty schoolyard. In a climactic scene, she sits fuming on a park bench next to the stuffy banker with whom an arranged marriage is planned. When she rebels and breaks away, the bright red color of her fitted dress is as startling to us as to the staring villagers. Like many foreigners everywhere, she discovers her home in the city, where she finds work, opportunity, and a husband from an even more diverse background than her own. They speak English ("at last, a real conversation"); they drink their tea with milk and sugar; and when their son, Allen, is born, they speak English to each other and Japanese to him. Both an "ugly duckling" romance and a universal story of leaving home, this is a picture book that will have intense appeal for older readers. Category: Middle Readers. 1999, Houghton/Walter Lorraine, $17. Gr. 4-8. PremiosListas de sobresalientes
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