From folk art to photography, architecture to painting, sculpture to music, female Cuban artists have long gone unnoticed on a global scale. This poetry collection highlights the lives and legacies of eight Cuban women who have redefined art in their communities.
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Für Kinder
US School Grade: From Third Grade to Eighth Grade, Reading Age: Up to 14 years, Interest Age: From 10 to 13 years
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Broschur/Paperback
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Höhe: 304 mm
Breite: 260 mm
Dicke: 3 mm
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978-1-4788-7961-9 (9781478879619)
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Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels, memoirs, and picture books, including The Surrender Tree, Enchanted Air, Drum Dream Girl, and Dancing Hands. Awards include a Newbery Honor, Pura Belpré, Golden Kite, Walter, Jane Addams, PEN U.S.A., and NSK Neustadt, among others. Margarita served as the national 2017-2019 Young People's Poet Laureate. She is a three-time U.S. nominee for the Astrid Lindgren Book Award. Her most recent books are Your Heart, My Sky, A Song of Frutas, Light for All, Rima's Rebellion, and Singing With Elephants. Margarita was born in Los Angeles, but developed a deep attachment to her mother's homeland during childhood summers with relatives on the island. She studied agronomy, botany, and creative writing, and now lives in central California with her husband.
