Jorge Luján
1) Colors!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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This bilingual, bicultural book presents us with a beautiful vision of a planet in which nature, words and the rising and setting of the sun and the moon exist in harmony.
Sumario en español: Este libro, bilingüe y bicultural, nos presenta el hermoso panorama de un planeta en el cual la naturaleza, las palabras, y la salida y puesta del sol y la luna coexisten en armonía.
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A simple but empowering poem about creating a world, told from a young child's perspective.
When a little girl moves her hand, she changes the world as she discovers it. As she moves her known world she discovers her own power and creates everything anew.
The poem, written by Argentine poet Jorge Luján, comes from a culture saturated with magic in which even the very young can make the world by reaching out and moving it. Mandana Sadat's imaginative...
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The song of the rooster draws forth the universe and gives way to the dance of beings and objects as day draws its first brilliant breath. This book is so supremely simple that a baby can delight in it, and yet so complex that an adult reader can find joy in the poem and beautiful images over and over again.
Jorge Lujan dreamed this myth and, when he wrote it, understood that the rooster is the poet of the day. Manuel Monroy dipped his pen in the...