Illustrator’s agency: Full Circle Literary.

Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot-the Hispanics featured in this collection come from nay different. Author’s agent: Michelle Humphrey, Martha Kaplan Agency. Written by Margarita Engle Henry Holt 2017. A Spanish-language edition is available simultaneously. Capsule biographies are a welcome supplement to the poems, which don’t always fully contextualize the figures on their own. Celebrated Cuban-American author Engle presents the lives of some well-known Latinos such as the musician Tito Puente, labor union organizer Csar Chvez, and National Baseball Hall of Fame player Roberto Clemente. Bravo Poems About Amazing Hispanics BUY THIS BOOK Bravo Poems About Amazing Hispanics Margarita Engle, illus. “I struggled to become a teacher/ and a poet, so I could use words/ to fight for equal rights for women,” explains Puerto Rican activist Julia de Burgos, while George Meléndez Wright, the first chief of the National Park Service’s wildlife division, speaks to his environmental passions: “Let us save rare species/ before it is too late!” López (who illustrated Engle’s Dream Drum Girl) creates bold, dramatic portraits of the subjects, which include José Martí, Pura Belpré, Tito Puente, and César Chávez. This book features the lives of a variety of Latinos who faced life’s challenges with aplomb and in their own ways. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup.

Some are famous All faced challenges and made lasting contributions.Eighteen Hispanic individuals from diverse professional and personal backgrounds are honored in Engle’s plainspoken free-verse poems, written from each person’s perspective. Read reviews and buy Bravo (Spanish Language Edition) - by Margarita Engle (Hardcover) at Target. Bold, graphic portraits and beautiful poems present famous and lesser-known Latinos from varied backgrounds who have faced lifes.

‘Lopez’s bright portraits of notable Hispanics have the large scale and graphic discipline of poster art, while Engle manages to compress the sweep of a biography into a sharp, compact free-verse poem about each life, from childhood on. Bravo - by Margarita Engle (Hardcover) 18. Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a collective history and a community that continues to evolve and thrive today!īiographical poems include: Aida de Acosta, Arnold Rojas, Baruj Benacerraf, César Chávez, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, Félix Varela, George Meléndez, José Martí, Juan de Miralles, Juana Briones, Julia de Burgos, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Paulina Pedroso, Pura Belpré, Roberto Clemente, Tito Puente, Ynes Mexia, and Tomás Rivera. Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot―the Latinos featured in this collection, Bravo!, come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds.

Bravo! by Margarita Engle