Book
Tomas and the library lady
Record details
- ISBN: 0679904018 (lib. bdg.)
- ISBN: 0679804013
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Physical Description:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1997.
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| Subject: | Mexican Americans Fiction Migrant labor Fiction Libraries Fiction Books and reading Fiction |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | E MORA P (Text) | 33126008537957 | Easy | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | E MORA P (Text) | 33126006967362 | Easy | Available | - |
- School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 1997 October
Tomás Rivera, who at his death in 1984 was the Chancellor of the University of California at Riverside, grew up in a migrant family. Here, Mora tells the fictionalized story of one summer in his childhood during which his love of books and reading is fostered by a librarian in Iowa, who takes him under her wing while his family works the harvest. She introduces him to stories about dinosaurs, horses, and American Indians and allows him to take books home where he shares them with his parents, grandfather, and brother. When it is time for the family to return to Texas, she gives Tomás the greatest gift of all a book of his own to keep. Colón's earthy, sun-warmed colors, textured with swirling lines, add life to this biographical fragment and help portray Tomás's reading adventures in appealing ways. Stack this up with Sarah Stewart and David Small's The Library (Farrar, 1995) and Suzanne Williams and Steven Kellogg's Library Lil (Dial, 1997) to demonstrate the impact librarians can have on Barbara Elleman, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI Copyright 1998 School Library Journal Reviews