Featherless by Juan Felipe Herrera
Bilingual English/Spanish. Award-winning children's book author and poet Juan Felipe Herrera offers a story of self-empowerment and friendship.
Kids race across the grass,
swooping like kites over an emerald sea.
No one notices
how fast I can spin my wheels.
Will I ever catch up?
Will they ever see me?
At his new school or on the soccer field, all everyone wants to know is why Tomasito is in a wheelchair. His Papi gives Tomasisto a new pet to make him smile, but this bird is a little bit different from the rest. Before long, this boy-bird team discovers that there's more than one way to fly-on or off the soccer field-and that those cheers Tomasito hears from the sidelines just might be for him. Goooooooooooal
Award-winning children's book author and poet Juan Felipe Herrera scores yet again with this sparkling story of self-empowerment and friendship. The brilliant acrylic paintings by Ernesto Cuevas, Jr., soar off the page with joy.
During the last three decades, Juan Felipe has received numerous awards and fellowships, such as two National Endowment for the Arts Writers' Fellowships, four California Arts Council grants, the UC Berkeley Regents' Fellowship, the Breadloaf Fellowship in Poetry, and the Stanford Chicano Fellows Fellowship. He has given lectures, workshops, readings, and performances of his work and writing throughout the nation. Juan Felipe's publications in the last decade include fourteen collections of poetry, prose, writing and plays, short stories, young adult novels, and picture books for children, with twenty-one books in total. For his literary endeavors, Juan Felipe has garnered the Ezra Jack Keats Award, the Hungry Mind Award of Distinction, the Americas Award, the Focal Award, the Pura Belpre Honors Award, the Smithsonian Children's Book of the Year, the Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice, the IRA Teacher's Choice, the Los Angeles Times Book Award nomination, the Texas Blue Bonnet nomination, the New York Public Library outstanding book for high school students, the National Tomas Rivera Mexican American Award, and two Latino Hall of Fame Poetry awards. Juan Felipe is also an actor, with appearances on film and stage. He recently produced The Twin Tower Songs, a San Joaquin Valley performance memorial on the September 11th tragedy, and he writes poetry sequences for the PBS television series American Family. His 2004 musical, The Upside Down Boy, was well received in New York City (attended by 9,000 K-6 students). It was produced by Making Books Sing, with libretto by Barbara Zinn Krieger, lyrics by Juan Felipe Herrera, and music by Cristian Amigo. More recently, he wrote the libretto and lyrics for Salsalandia, a commission for the La Jolla Playhouse. Juan Felipe is a board member of the Before Columbus American Book Awards Foundation. He received his B.A. in social anthropology from the University of California at Los Angeles, his M.A. in social anthropology from Stanford, and his M.F.A. in creative writing from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Juan Felipe often travels and performs with his partner, Margarita Robles, a poet and performance artist.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780892391950 |
| ISBN 10 | 0892391952 |
| Title | Featherless |
| Author | Juan Felipe Herrera |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Children's Book Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2004-06-25 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| Prizes | Winner of Independent Publisher Book Awards (Multicultural Fic Y/A) 2005 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |