Product Description

Can you imagine a shipwrecked sailor living on air and seaweed for eight days? Can you imagine a trail of yellow butterflies fluttering their wings to songs of love? Once, there was a little boy named Gabito who could. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is perhaps one of the most brilliant writers of our time. He is a tremendous figure, enormously talented, and unabashedly admired. This is his story, lovingly told, for children to enjoy. Using the imagery from his novels, Monica Brown traces the novelist's life in this creative nonfiction picture book from his childhood in Colombia to today. This is an inspiring story about an inspiring life, full of imagination and beauty.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #296562 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780873589086
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Publisher
Winner of the ALA 2008 Pura Belpre Award Honor for Illustration. Name Best Children and YA Books of 2007 by Criticas magazine

Customer Reviews

A wonderful multicultural picturebook
Award-winning author Monica Brown presents My Name is Gabito: The Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a bilingual English/Spanish picturebook about the brilliant and imaginative writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Following "Gabito" from childhood to adulthood, and his evolution from a dreaming boy to a great storyteller read by millions, My Name is Gabito offers vibrant color illustrations by Raul Colon, featuring a visual texture to the color distantly reminiscent of the swirls of a fingerprint. A wonderful multicultural picturebook, My Name is Gabito features modestly involved text and is ideal for young readers who are just about ready to enjoy chapter books. The flawless Spanish text alongside the English will also appeal to Spanish-language students of all ages seeking to hone their skills and fluency.

Wonderful books for a bilingual child!
Monica Brown is an amazingly smart and sensitive writer for children. I heard her speak at a conference, and she puts a lot of care and thought into her books, which are bilingual. She hopes to introduce children to interesting Latino/a people, and I have bought several of these books for my soon-to-be bilingual grandchild. Highly recommended!

Magical storytellers childhood
A magnificent children's book about an incredible talent, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, that students, children, parents and teachers alike will enjoy. The book serves as a nice introduction to this giant of literature. The Nobel Prize winner for Literature, who wrote over thirty books, with such diverse themes and titles as El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Oprah #59), News of a Kidnapping (Vintage International) and One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) has had his books translated into many languages and several made into motion pictures. Before he was well known though he was known as Gabito. This divine children's biography tells of the magical world of Gabito in Colombia where he lived with a 100 year old parrot, who told stories in a haunted house. Gabito also loved to be with his grandfather who introduced him to his love of words. Gabito would imagine a world beyond his, incorporating his childhood experiences into stories for everyone to enjoy. His fantastic imagination began in childhood and this fact should appeal to the young reader. The bilingual text is superb and may serve the student well whose first language is not English. the illustrations are magnificent, especialy the oversized drawings that incorporates two pages with the theme of the imagination. This Luna Rising book is another example of a outstanding bilingual children's book. Author Monica Brown again delivers a beautiful bilingual educational book. If you enjoy this book you may also like some of her other biographies for children like My Name is Gabriela/Me llamo Gabriela (Bilingual): The Life of Gabriela Mistral/la vida de Gabriela Mistral or her award winning book My Name is Celia/Me llamo Celia (Bilingual): The Life of Celia Cruz/la vida de Celia Cruz (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Winner (Awards)). This bilingual children's book is highly recommended for K-6 and community libraries.