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Islandborn

Islandborn

by Leo Espinosa (Illustrator), Leo Espinosa (Illustrator), Junot Díaz (Author)

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    Hardcover 2018

    $10.65
Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination

Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else.
Hers was a school of faraway places.

When Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember the Island - she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories - joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening - Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: 'just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you.'

Gloriously illustrated and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination's boundless ability to connect us - to our families, to our past and to ourselves.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 48
 Publisher: Rock the Boat
Published: 04 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 178607477X
ISBN 13: 9781786074775
Children’s book age: 5-7 Years

Media Reviews
'With his tenacious, curious heroine and a voice that's chatty, passionate, wise, and loving, Diaz entices readers to think about a fundamental human question: what does it mean to belong?' * Publishers Weekly starred review *
`A sensitive and beautiful story of culture, identity, and belonging - a superb picture book outing for Diaz and one to be shared broadly in a variety of settings.' * School Library Journal *
`The exuberant, brightly coloured illustrations are filled with a child's interpretation of the memories and fill the double-page spreads with details to pore over. This important title will be enjoyed by young children and may spark many significant discussions.' * Booklist *
`[Islandborn] engages with many of the same themes that Mr. Diaz has wrestled with in his fiction: immigration and identity, the weight of collective memory, and feelings of displacement and belonging.' * New York Times *
Author Bio
Junot Diaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. A graduate of Rutgers University, Diaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leo Espinosa is an award-winning illustrator and designer from Bogota, Colombia, whose work has been featured in The New Yorker, Wired, Esquire, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and more. Leo lives with his family in Salt Lake City, Utah.