Así nace una mariposa (Starting Life Butterfly) (Asi Nace)

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This fascinating collection introduces readers to the amazing story of new life. Beautiful illustrations with detailed scenes from nature, and accurate, easy-to-read text are presented in a fun novelty format to capture children's imagination-the pages grow as the creature grows! Each title contains tabs, picture captions, a glossary, an index, and graphs... the perfect "tool kit" to initiate young students in the reading of informational materials.

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Samuel y Rita encuentran un regalo especial y raro para su mamá en su cumpleaños. Bellamente ilustrado. Sammy and Rita find a special and unusual gift for their mother's birthday. Beautifully illustrated.

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A beautiful work.......2007-06-01

This is simply a beautiful work. From the story to the art, this work captures and presents a sense of place and family filled with learning, love and compassion. Its telling of a children's story in both Spanish and English not only reflects our times of increasing interactions and relations between people, but Marta Curti's story and Linda Hunter's art work push us to think differently about life and nature; push us to include all beings as part of the social.

Peces, flores y mariposas, Fish, Flowers and Butterflies.......2007-05-13

This is a terrific little book. The story is eco-friendly and illustrates the love children have for their mother. The illustrations are vibrant and colorful. Every elementary school in both North and South America should have at least one.

Get this book! You won't be sorry........2007-04-03

Anyone familiar with Marta Curti's poetry already knows of her love for the natural world. In "Fish, Flowers and Butterflies", her bilingual book for young readers, she shares that love with children. "Fish, Flowers and Butterflies" is a simple tale which tells us, through prose and poems presented in both Spanish and English, that it's not necessary to pick flowers or capture butterflies to enjoy and share their beauty. For children who live in a place where they might not get to see many fish, flowers and butterflies, there are Linda Hunter's charming, whimsical illustrations. It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words but Ms. Hunter's pictures combine with Ms. Curti's words to make this little volume priceless. It will delight any reader, from a child just learning to read to a grandparent sharing the joy of books.
Bill Lee

Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (Writing in Latinidad)

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Engaging: You Will Finish This Gripping Memoir Quicker than You Received It
Memoir travels maze of sex, family and self-acceptance

Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (Writing in Latinidad)
Rigoberto Gonzalez
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0299219003

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Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, Butterfly Boy is a unique coming out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history and memory are not exchangeable or forgettable.

Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, Rigoberto González also faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo. Losing his mother when he is twelve, González must then confront his father’s abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement, both from his adopted home in the United States and from a Mexican birthright. His only sense of connection gets forged in a violent relationship with an older man. By finding his calling as a writer, and by revisiting the relationship with his father during a trip to Mexico, González finally claims his identity at the intersection of race, class, and sexuality. The result is a leap of faith that every reader who ever felt like an outsider will immediately recognize.

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Engaging: You Will Finish This Gripping Memoir Quicker than You Received It.......2006-09-04

Years ago Rigoberto Gonzalez did a reading at the University of California, Riverside, his alma mater and the approximate locale where he met the "older lover" who abused him. Someone in the audience asked him why he felt he could write a memoir so young? Rigoberto, then in his early thirties, answered, "Because I write about another time that is no longer my life."

BUTTERFLY BOY: MEMORIES OF A CHICANO MARIPOSA speaks to us about cruelties we do not want to confront: physical and sexual abuse among gay men, child sexual abuse, continuing cycles of abuse, poverty among immigrant farmworkers, family abuse linked to socioeconomic conditions, and inequality in secondary and higher education. These are some of the issues most of us have lived, our "dirty little secrets," but very little of us admit to. I praise Rigoberto Gonzalez for his courage to bring this out to light.

Without a doubt, BUTTERFLY BOY is an example of taking risks with one's writing. Each scene is more heart-breaking than the last, and addictive. Addictive not in the sadistic sense, but because Gonzalez weaves a narrative that pulls you in, and its unsentimentality and your empathy that won't let you go. His prose is poetic and never dramatic. A read you won't be able to put down.

This book will become a classic in Chicano/a and ethnic literature. Worth the buy at any price.

Nothing can be more true than when Gonzalez said that he writes about a life no longer lived. He is an accomplished, award-winning writer and a leading figure in Chicano letters, movers and shakers. He is currently a professor in creative wrting at Queens College in New York. It's hard to believe he went through all the events he writes about, plus more I can't imagine, and still become as successful as he is now. Considering his up-bringing and where he's arrived, I hope this book falls into the hands of those who face similar adversities and have shrinking hope.

Memoir travels maze of sex, family and self-acceptance.......2006-08-25

What makes a writer?

This seemingly simple question can elicit many complex answers and even more questions. Case in point: Rigoberto González's poetic and heartbreaking memoir, "Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa" (The University of Wisconsin Press, $24.95 hardcover).

González is an award-winning author of poetry, fiction and children's books. He is also a book critic contributing regularly to the El Paso Times.

How did González, the son of migrant farmworkers whose first language was Spanish, become González the writer? Answers begin to emerge from his painful assertion of himself as a gay man in a culture steeped in machismo.

González tells of his journey into adulthood and a life of literature in a nonlinear fashion, moving back and forth from childhood to adulthood, Mexico to the United States, self-loathing to self-revelatory empowerment.

The book begins in Riverside, Calif., in 1990. González, as a college student at the Riverside campus of the University of California, has fallen in love with an older man who, as symbolized by painful yet beautiful "butterfly" marks he places upon González, brings both tenderness and brutality to the relationship. The unnamed lover cheats on González and doesn't hesitate to beat him up to establish his superiority over his young man. At times, González believes he deserves such brutality.

Other times, he is grateful to have escaped the oppressiveness of his family and its legacy of dropping out of high school to work in the fields. The escape comes in the form of literature. A sometimes-callous, sometimes-tender teacher named Dolly lends the young González a poetry book and works with him to subjugate his accent. And the fire is lit: "I became a closet reader at first, taking my book with me to the back of the landlord's house or into my parents' room, where I would mouth the syllables softly, creating my own muted music."

González then suffers the death of his mother when he is only 12. Compounding this loss, he is shipped off to live with his tyrannical grandfather. His own father -- who abuses alcohol and carouses with women --eventually starts another family, further alienating González. Again, books prove to be González's salvation, eventually leading to his surreptitious and successful application to college.

González remains closeted in both his sexuality and intellect, realizing that neither facet of his identity would be understood or appreciated by his family.

In the midst of scenes from his college life in Riverside and his adolescent exploration of sex and literature, González recounts a long and agonizing bus trip with his father. He leaves Riverside and travels to Indio, where his father lives, so they can begin their journey "into México, into the state of Michoacán, into the town of Zacapu, where my father was born, where my mother was raised, and where I grew up." This passage home takes on a special aura because González will turn 20 while there. Throughout the trip, González longs for his lover while seething with an almost uncontrollable anger toward his father. Throughout, he wonders if this trip was a mistake or a necessary part of becoming an adult.

What makes a writer? Obviously, talent is a necessary ingredient. And in the case of González, add to the mix hard work and a burning desire to be heard. Ultimately, it is a mysterious alchemy.

In any case, "Butterfly Boy" is a potent and poetic coming-of-age story about one man's acceptance of himself. There's no mystery in that.

[This review first appeared in the El Paso Times.]

Malinda Martha Meets Mariposa: A Star Is Born

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A Delight!
A Fun Story
It Sparkles!

Malinda Martha Meets Mariposa: A Star Is Born
Marcia Trimble
Manufacturer: Images Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1891577581

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A Delight!.......2002-06-17

I read this book to my second grade class and had a wonderful
reception! The children were delighted with the rich and colorful
illustrations by the talented John Lund, and also by the charming
and animated text by Ms. Trimble. Rich in color and detail, it is
an ideal selection for butterfly education for young children.
I applaud Ms. Trimble's obvious success in translating the
beautiful story of catterpillar "capers" into book adaptation for
young children. Quite a literary delight!

A Fun Story.......2002-04-05

I used to hate to read, but now I know you can learn a lot from
reading books like "Melinda Martha Meets Mariposa" cuz it teaches
you about the metamorphisas of the Monarch butterfly. Since I
love butterflys, I wanted to read about them. I learned a lot
from this book. Cuz it talks about the butterfly's life and how
its born. I never knew that it took five weeks for it to come
alive. Melinda Martha is fun cuz it makes learning cool. Melinda
Martha pretends she is putting on a play in her backyard. The
play is all about the Monarc butterflyt and it shows the whole
life sycle. So it's like the life sycle is a show we can watch.
We can watch how the butterfly is born. The pictures are realy
buetiful and the story is fun. I like it alot.

It Sparkles!.......2002-04-05

I am so glad that finally a book about this endangered species
has been written for kids, cause I think kids need to learn
about the interesting life cycle of the butterfly. Finally
little kids are introduced to the beautiful monarch butterfly
in this beautiful book. Trimble gives a great portrayal of the
butterfly in her book. This book just sparkles with life and
insight! I recommend this book to any teacher who wants to
introduce to lower grade students the monarch butterfly in a

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La magnýfica monarca.......2006-04-14

Highly recommend this excellent book on the life cycle of the butterfly. This book is presently being used by second graders while we are growing "la magn?fica monarca". The pictures during the life cycle are beautiful. There is also a chapter on "Monarcas en peligro". One section covers the growth and length of the caterpillar in very understandable language and drawings.

La Mariposa/butterfly (Lee Y Aprende, Ciclos Vitales/Life Cycles)

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La Mariposa/butterfly (Lee Y Aprende, Ciclos Vitales/Life Cycles)
Louise Spilsbury
Manufacturer: Heinemann
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1403468818

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Butterfly Mariposa

Manufacturer: Scholastic, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0439562406

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First bilingual printing. English/Spanish. Take a close-up look at a monarch egg and watch it turn into a beautiful butterfly. Observa atentamente un huevo monarca y lo veras convertirse en una hermosa mariposa.

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