Aire encantado (Enchanted Air): Dos culturas, dos alas: una memoria

by Margarita Engle, Alexis Romay (Translator)

Overview

"In this ... memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War"--Amazon.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534404786
Publisher:	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	08/29/2017
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)
Language:	Spanish
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels Rima’s Rebellion; Your Heart, My Sky; With a Star in My Hand; The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner; The Lightning Dreamer; and Wild Dreamers, a Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor book. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.

Alexis Romay is the author of two novels and two books of poetry. His essays and opinion pieces have been published by NBC News, World Literature Today, Museum of Modern Art, El Nuevo Herald, Latino Rebels, Hypermedia Magazine, Replicante, Letras Libres, and other outlets. He has written lyrics for Paquito D’Rivera and translated over forty picture books, as well as novels by Ana Veciana-Suarez, Margarita Engle, Miguel Correa Mujica, Meg Medina, Stuart Gibbs, and Adrianna Cuevas. He lives in New Jersey with his family.

Read an Excerpt

Aire encantado (Enchanted Air)

La primera vez que mis padres

me llevan por los aires a través del mágico cielo

a conocer a la familia de mi madre en Cuba,

soy tan pequeña que apenas puedo hablar

con mis parientes:

mi abuelita,

a quien todavía le encanta bailar,

y su anciana mamá, mi bisabuela,

a quien todavía le encanta la jardinería y trabaja

tan duro como cualquier hombre

joven y fuerte.

Desde ya está isla comienza a lucir

como un reino de hadas

en el que la gente común y corriente

hace cosas

imposibles.