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Schimel, Lawrence

Let's Go See Papá

40 pp. | Groundwood | November, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-1-55498-106-9 $18.95

(2) K-3 Translated by Elisa Amada. Illustrated by Alba Marina Rivera. The narrator’s father has been working in the United States while she lives with her mother and grandmother in an unspecified Spanish-speaking country. When Papá sends money for his wife and daughter to join him, there’s both elation and sadness as the narrator realizes what she’s leaving behind. Conversational text and expressionistic illustrations detail life in a family of three generations of women.

Reviewer: Kathleen T. Horning | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2012