Lola

Island Born Spanish

Junot Díaz, Leo Espinosa, Teresa Mlawer

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DIAL BOOKS
13 March 2018

Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places.

So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island-she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories-joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening-Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words- oJust because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you.o

Gloriously illustrated and lyrically written, Lola is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination's boundless ability to connect us-to our families, to our past and to ourselves.

By: Junot Díaz
Illustrated by: Leo Espinosa
Other: Teresa Mlawer
Imprint: DIAL BOOKS
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 286mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 522g
ISBN: 9780525552819
ISBN 10: 0525552812
Pages: 48
Publication Date: 13 March 2018
Recommended Age: From 5 to 8 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Junot DYaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. A graduate of Rutgers University, DYaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leo Espinosa is an award-winning illustrator and designer from BogotB, Colombia, whose work has been featured in The New Yorker, Wired, Esquire, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and more. Leo's illustrations have been recognized by American Illustration, Communication Arts, Pictoplasma, 3x3, and the Society of Illustrators. Leo lives with his family in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Reviews for Lola (Island Born Spanish)

â The Spanish in this edition of Islandborn feels familiar and representative of the community of which Diaz writes. Espinosa's illustrations beautifully center Afro-Latinidad, which is something that is lacking in other children's books about Latinx people...This rich celebration of heritage and diversity will spark curiosity in young readers to learn their own family histories. --Booklist, starred review