The Wild Book
By Margarita Engle
(Harcourt Children's Books, Hardcover, 9780547581316, 144pp.)
Publication Date: March 20, 2012
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: History - Central & South America, Girls & Women, Health & Daily Living - Diseases
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Description
Newbery Honor-winner Margarita Engle tells her most personal story to date, a glowing portrait in verse of her Cuban grandmother as a young girl struggling with dyslexia.
About the Author
Margarita Engle is the award-winning author of the Newbery Honor book The Surrender Tree, as well as The Poet Slave of Cuba, Tropical Secrets, The Firefly Letters, and Hurricane Dancers. She lives with her husband in Northern California. Visit her at www.margaritaengle.com.
Praise For The Wild Book…
A Kirkus Best Children's Book of 2012
"A beautiful tale of perseverance."—Kirkus, starred review "Readers will be enchanted."—VOYA "[A] lyrical glimpse of early twentieth-century Cuba."--Booklist "Engle’s writing is customarily lovely."--Publishers Weekly "The idea of a wild book on which to let her words sprout is one that should speak to those with reading difficulties and to aspiring poets as well."--School Library Journal "[A] remarkable, intimate depiction of Fefa's struggle with dyslexia; Engle is masterful at using words to evoke this difficulty, and even those readers unfamiliar with the condition will understand its meaning through her rich use of imagery and detail."--Bulletin
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