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    Audiobook14 minutes

    Dreamers

    Written by Yuyi Morales

    Narrated by Adriana Sananes

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In 1994, twenty-five-year-old Yuyi Morales traveled from her home in Yelapa, Mexico, to the San Francisco Bay Area with her two-month-old son, Kelly, in order to secure permanent residency in this country. Her passage was not easy, and she spoke no English whatsoever. But due in large measure to help and guidance provided by area children's librarians, she learned English the same way her young son learned to read: through the picture books they shared together.

    In spare, lyrical verse, Yuyi has created a lasting testament to the journeys, both physical and metaphorical, that she and Kelly have taken together in the intervening years. Beautiful and powerful at any time—but given particular urgency as the status of our own Dreamers becomes uncertain—this is a story that is both topical and timeless.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateSep 4, 2018
    ISBN9781974908226
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    Dreamers
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    Yuyi Morales

    Born in Xalapa, Mexico, Yuyi Morales lived for many years in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a storyteller, dancer, choreographer, puppeteer, and artist, who has won the prestigious Pura Belpré Award for Illustration five times and has also been awarded the Caldecott Honor.

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    • 5/5
      Beautiful and important. Adriana Sananes is one of the greatest narrating voice talents in any language.
    • 5/5
      Beautiful. Simple, but captures the terrible hardships of immigration and Morales' fascination with books, especially picture books in a gorgeous way.
    • 4/5
      diverse picture book (for preschool age and up, Latinx immigrant mother and child)
      beautiful illustrations, beautiful story. Appeals to adults especially but can also resonate with children.
    • 5/5
      This book was absolutely beautiful. From the illustrations to the story being told I was consumed with the authors story and the journey she took to find a better life for her and her son. I would use this book in my class to show they bravery that it takes to immigrate to America and how hard the journey can be so we always need to be accepting and welcoming to everyone.
    • 5/5
      lavishly illustrated and heartfelt without veering for a moment into preachy
    • 5/5
      She mentions my San Francisco library branch and other branches I’ve used, as ones she and her son used! San Francisco is in this book in a big way.The final 4 pages are her story (so touching and inspirational!) and a long bibliography of books meaningful to the author (woe to my growing to read list but many of the books I’ve also already loved and some are apropos of the topic of this book) and there is a wonderful short section about how she created the art for this book. Having that information cemented my 5 star rating.Great immigration story and it’s sorely needed right now. I can recommend this book to all picture book readers. A love letter to libraries and to books so recommended to those who love them. I appreciated how she mentioned a librarian and library branch by name when relating one event. I enjoyed the bit of humor, and mostly the heartfelt account.Gorgeous art and fits 100% perfectly with this story. I particularly relished the pictures of libraries and books, including some specific books. The art by itself isn’t my very favorite aesthetically but I love it in the context of the author’s story. I spent a lot of time looking at the many lovely details included in the pictures. I appreciated so much that she tells her story and turns around right in the book and asks her readers/viewers to tell their stories.Highly recommended for all immigrants, all who wish or need to understand the immigrant experience, especially regarding people who don’t at first speak/read the language of their new homes, book lovers, library lovers, and the children of San Francisco; this book is dedicated to them.4-1/2 stars
    • 4/5
      Inspired by her own story of crossing a bridge, her infant son on her back, and finding herself an immigrant to the United States, celebrated author and artist Yuyi Morales explores being a newcomer in a strange new place in this beautiful picture-book memoir. Not able to speak the language at first, making many mistakes along the way, she and her son eventually find a home at their local library, where they discover the wonder of having a practically limitless supply of books at their disposal. Here, as they become immersed in the world of children's books, they slowly learn English, and begin to feel more at home in their new country...Reading Dreamers, I was reminded of expatriate Turkish newspaper columnist Zeynep Tufekci, who in a 2016 pean to American infrastructure, described how astonished she was to encounter a public library for the first time, as she was used to libraries being incredibly rare, and off-limits to the populace (see her "Why the Post Office Makes America Great," in The New York Times). In much the same way, Morales describes the library that she and her son encountered as a magical place, in her author's afterword. I think many people in the Unites States take these wonderful amenities for granted, little realizing how rare they are in some other countries, or how proud they should feel, that they function so well. With the national debate about immigration currently, here in the United States, Morales' book couldn't be any more topical, politically speaking - even the title, Dreamers, references an aspect of that debate - but although this is an immigrant story (and an excellent one!), it is the role of the library, and of children's books, that really stood out to me. The artwork is gorgeous, and depicts numerous beloved titles for kids, from picture-books to novels. I thought it was a particularly nice touch that Shaun Tan's The Arrival, which is also an immigrant story, was referenced visually, toward the close of the book. Recommended to fellow Yuyi Morales fans, to anyone looking for stories about immigrants to the United States, or for those seeking picture-books which celebrate the library, and the power of children's literature.