Posted in Biography (Thursday, December 4, 2008)
Written by Beatrice Irene Gilman Proske. By [Hispanic Society of America].
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No comments about Castilian sculpture, Gothic to Renaissance (Hispanic notes & monographs; essays, studies, and brief biographies. Peninsular series).
Posted in Biography (Thursday, December 4, 2008)
By Greenwood Press.
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No comments about Latino and African American Athletes Today: A Biographical Dictionary.
Posted in Biography (Thursday, December 4, 2008)
Written by Jim Whiting. By Mitchell Lane Publishers.
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No comments about Francisco Vasquez De Coronado (Latinos in American History).
Posted in Biography (Thursday, December 4, 2008)
Written by Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm. By University of Texas Press.
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1 comments about De León, a Tejano Family History.
- Every now and then you luck into a beautifully produced book which changes your frame of reference. "De Leon" is as close to telling us about who we are and what made our nation as any I've read.
You don't have to be an historian or a scholar or someone with a particular interest in Mexican American history to realize that the De Leon story, in Crimm's telling, is as engaging, exciting, and moving as any part of our American story. "De Leon" offers an understanding not just of a piece of family history but of a whole landscape, storied but unfamiliar to many of us. Highly recommended!
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Posted in Biography (Thursday, December 4, 2008)
Written by Jim Whiting. By Mitchell Lane Publishers.
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No comments about Junipero Jose Serra (Latinos in American History).
Posted in Biography (Thursday, December 4, 2008)
Written by Pam Walker. By Children's Press(CT).
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1 comments about Ellen Ochoa (Real People).
- I ordered this book thinking it would provide a nice, concise biography of Ellen Ochoa, the famous Latina astronaut, for my 10 year old son. Unfortunately, the book consists almost entirely of pairs of facing pages, on one side displaying a color photo occupying a full page and on the other side a page with a single sentence 6 to 8 words long. The only exceptions to this are the first page, which has two sentences totaling 7 words in all, and the last page, which has 3 sentences of 7 or 8 words each. There is also a 4-word glossary at the end with 3 to 6 word long definitions of these words: astronaut, machines, space and train (the verb).
For you to grasp the level of this book, I need only quote the first few pages: "Meet Ellen Ochoa. She is an astronaut. Ellen had to train to be an astronaut. Ellen had to learn how to use many machines. She worked hard, but she had fun." You have now read the first 12 pages of this 24 page book! We don't get to find out when or where she was born, where she went to college or what degrees she earned, how long or where she trained for her mission(s), how long she worked at NASA, what the machines were she had to train on, or what trips she may or may not have taken into space.
The color photographs are beautiful. If you want a nice picture book to inspire 6 year olds to read their first simple sentences, this is your book. If you actually want your child to learn something about Ellen Ochoa, you'll have to look elsewhere!
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Posted in Biography (Thursday, December 4, 2008)
Written by Alfonso Nava. By McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing.
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No comments about American Science and Technology Latino (a) Inventors of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Posted in Biography (Thursday, December 4, 2008)
Written by R. Conrad Stein. By Child's World.
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No comments about Hernando Cortes: Conquistador and Empire Builder (Proud Heritage: the Hispanic Library).
Posted in Biography (Thursday, December 4, 2008)
Written by Elizabeth Martinez. By Millbrook Press.
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No comments about Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz.
Posted in Biography (Thursday, December 4, 2008)
By Visible Ink Press.
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No comments about Latinas!: Women of Achievement.
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