Doors to the World - Puerto Rico

Parrots Over Puerto Rico

szachs — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:47:32 +0000

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Above the treetops of Puerto Rico flies a flock of parrots as green as their island home. . . . These are Puerto Rican parrots. They lived on this island for millions of years, and then they nearly vanished from the earth forever.

Puerto Rican parrots, once abundant, came perilously close to extinction in the 1960s due to centuries of foreign exploration and occupation, development, and habitat destruction. In this compelling book, Roth and Trumbore recount the efforts of the scientists of the Puerto Rican Parrot Recovery Program to save the parrots and ensure their future. Woven into the parrots’ story is a brief history of Puerto Rico itself, from before the first human settlers to the present day.

With striking collage illustrations, a unique format, and engaging storytelling, Parrots Over Puerto Rico invites readers to witness the amazing recovery efforts that have enabled Puerto Rican parrots to fly over their island once again.

Source: https://www.leeandlow.com/books/2835

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Lee & Low Books

ISBN#:

9781620140048

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Susan L. Roth

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English

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North America

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Puerto Rico

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Collage

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Nature

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Grandma’s Gift

jjohnsto — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 12:42:39 +0000

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The story about “Grandma’s Gift” started when Ms. Carmen, grandmother of Eric Velasquez author and illustrator, went to pick him up to the school for the school vacation. The teacher handed a note to grandma about the holiday project that Eric should do during that time. Eric had to go the Metropolitan Museum of Art located in the Fifth Avenue to see a famous painting that it was brought and write a report. In the meantime, grandma was planning to make “pasteles” a traditional dish from Puerto Rico to celebrate the Christmas with the family. Grandma compromised with Eric to bring him to the museum if he helped her with elaboration of the “pasteles” for the family dinner in Christmas Eve. Grandma and Eric took the train to go to “La Marqueta” to buy the ingredients for the “pasteles”.

Grandma and Eric arrived home, they started the ”pasteles”, while they were doing it, grandma asked Eric to put a music record with the traditional Christmas music of Puerto Rico. They enjoyed working together. Once the “pasteles: were done, grandma treated Eric very special by boiling him some for him to be the first one to try it. After, they went to the museum to start Eric holiday project. While there, grandma noticed and recognized the character in the painting. Juan de Pareja who was a slave (1610-1670) and assistant in the workshop of the famous painter, Diego Velazquez. He painted Parejas’ portrait in 1650, and immediately gained him claim. He gave Pareja his freedom, but they continued working together. That evening Eric’s parents brought arroz con gandules (rice with pigeon peas and roasted pork to have the Christmas Eve dinner. After the dinner, grandma told the story how she learned about Juan de Parejas while living in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Then, granma gave Eric a sketchbook and his first set of colored pencils. While they were listening to “Aguinaldo Puertorriqueno, Eric began to draw his first self-portrait.

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Walker & Company, 2010

ISBN#:

9780802720825

Author:

Eric Velasquez

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Eric Velasquez

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http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/grandmas-gift-9780802720825/

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The Golden Flower

szachs — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 20:50:49 +0000

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The syncopated prose of Nina Jaffe draws the reader to the island of Puerto Rico, back before the Spaniards arrived. The island was inhabited by the Taínos, and they called their beloved island, Boriquén. This is their story of how Boriquén came to be.

In the beginning, there is only a giant mountain above a dry plain without water or plants. When a child walks over the flat land below the mountain, he finds seeds dancing in the wind. When he plants the seeds on the top of the mountain, a forest grows on the crest and in that forest, a large golden flower appears. Soon, the boy and his community reap benefits that they had never before imagined.

A joyful creation myth about the evolution of a beautiful island habitat, this picture book, originally published by Simon & Schuster, is also a celebration of the young boy’s quest, which encourages young readers, ages 4-8, to respect the gifts of the winds and the cycle of nature that bears fruit for the whole community.

Jaffe’s adaptation of this traditional folktale common to indigenous peoples of South America and the Caribbean stemmed from her encounter with a Spanish-language text by Carmen Puigdollers, “Como se formó la bella isla de Boriquén,” and research in Puerto Rico.

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https://artepublicopress.com/product/the-golden-flower-a-taino-myth-from...

Publisher:

Piñata Books for Children, 2005

ISBN#:

1558854525

Author:

Nina Jaffe

Illustrator:

Enrique O. Sánchez

Language:

English

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The Golden Flower

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Central America and the Caribbean

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Puerto Rico

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https://artepublicopress.com/product/the-golden-flower-a-taino-myth-from-puerto-rico/

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Nature

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