!Bravo!: Poems About Amazing Hispanics

Description

Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot-the Latinos featured in this collection come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds. Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a collective history and a community that continues to evolve and thrive today! Biographical poems include: Aida de Acosta, Arnold Rojas, Baruj Benacerraf, Cesar Chavez, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, Felix Varela, George Melendez, Jose Marti, Juan de Miralles, Juana Briones, Julia de Burgos, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Paulina Pedroso, Pura Belpre, Roberto Clemente, Tito Puente, Ynes Mexia, Tomas Rivera

Margarita Engle is a Cuban American poet, novelist, and journalist. She writes picture, middle grade, and young adult nonfiction books and novels in verse, including the Newbery Honor Book The Surrender Tree and the Pura Belpre Honor Books The Firefly Letters and Hurricane Dancers. Rafael Lopez He has illustrated many award-winning books, including Book Fiesta! by Pat Mora; Tito Puente Mambo King, by Monica Brown; and The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred by Samantha Vamos.

Lopez's bright portraits of notable Hispanics have the large scale and graphic discipline of poster art, while Engle manages to compress the sweep of a biography into a sharp, compact free-verse poem about each life, from childhood on. Some are famous [...] All faced challenges [...] and made lasting contributions. --New York Times Book Review on Bravo! this book is a welcome addition to schools and libraries, as it expands the canon of historically significant individuals in the United States in such a lyrical and aesthetically pleasing manner. --School Library Journal, starred review, on Bravo! This book features the lives of a variety of Latinos who faced life's challenges with aplomb and in their own ways. . . each person is stunningly portrayed in Lopez's strong and vibrant style; opposite is a first-person biographical poem that provides a glimpse into its subject's life. --Kirkus Reviews on Bravo! Lopez (who illustrated Engle's Drum Dream Girl) creates bold, dramatic portraits of the subjects, which include Jose Marti, Pura Belpre, Tito Puente, and Cesar Chavez. Capsule biographies are a welcome supplement to the poems --Publishers Weekly on Bravo! The Poet Slave of Cuba: An absolutely lovely book . . . that should be read by young and old, black and white, Anglo and Latino. --School Library Journal, starred review Readers will hear the stories--and never forget them. --Booklist, starred review The moving poetry and finely crafted story will draw readers in and leave them in tears and in awe. --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review