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Jimenez, Francisco

La mariposa

40 pp. | Houghton | September, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-395-81663-7 $$16.00
(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Simon Silva. Francisco, a migrant child, doesn't speak English, and when he joins school he daydreams and watches the classroom's caterpillar, whose eventual metamorphosis mirrors Francisco's own. Adapted from The Circuit, Jim_nez's autobiographical collection of stories, the affecting text is less well served by the picture-book format and static illustrations. Also available in Spanish. Glos.
Reviewer: Elena Abos Alvarez-Buiza

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